The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
Jacques Ellul

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
Georg Simmel

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
Arthur Scargill

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Paul Virilio

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
Helen Thomas

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Coleman Young

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
Karl Lehmann

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
Arthur Levitt

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein