* "We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine." -- Hafsat Abiola

* ...Several million Sarvodaya adherents in Sri Lanka have proved that they can transcend racial, religious, linguistic and ethnic barriers to accept a common state of ideals, principles, and constructive programs to build a new society as collectively envisioned by them. -- Dr. Ari Ariyaratne

* When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined. -- Bono

* When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality. -- Archbishop Helder Camara

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

* A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

* If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. -- Vaclav Havel

* "Imagine what millions of us can accomplish... we will make our dream of a better world a reality.." -- Ellis Jones

* There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert F. Kennedy (paraphrase of quote by George Bernard Shaw)

* Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles. -- Dennis Kucinich

* If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. -- Martin Luther King, Jr

"Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening." -- Lewis Lapham

* "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." -- John Lennon * Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world -- John Lennon

* "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
-- John Lennon

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality... -- Margaret Mead

Everything you can imagine is real. -- Pablo Picasso

* Thinking about how the world might be and envisioning a society characterized by justice are the essence of conceptualizing the conditions that comprise positive peace. If we are to educate for peace, both teachers and students need to have some notion of the transformed world we are educating for. -- Betty Reardon

* So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. -- Christopher Reeve

* "You must believe that you can help bring about a better world." -- Bertrand Russell * "You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors." -- Bertrand Russell

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." -- George Bernard Shaw

Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth! -- Robert Alan Silverstein The biggest obstacle for creating a culture of peace is that most people won't let themselves even think about peace on earth. -- Robert Alan Silverstein If only we could have a wealth of literature and music and art that would inspire and encourage us and show us how wonderful peace on earth could be, perhaps we would be more excited about working together to create a better world. If you are a writer, artist, musician or filmmaker, and you dream of peace on earth, please use your creativity to help create a better world. -- Robert Alan Silverstein

 

The Season For Nonviolence has grown into an important educational and media opportunity to bring communities together, empowering them to envision and help create a nonviolent world, one heart and one day at a time. Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and inspiring new year-round activities for a more peaceful, nonviolent, just and sustainable world.

Imagine a world where nations never war.
Where no more weapons are fired any more.
Imagine a world where people do what's right
And the rule of law is stronger than the rule of might.
Imagine a world where everyone has all they need.
Where kindness and compassion are taught instead of greed.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!

Imagine a world where the global economy
is based on what's best for all earth's communities.
Where beauty and art and the media inspire
The best in all, and lift our spirits higher.
Imagine a world where science and technology
Serve only to bring out the best in humanity.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!

Imagine a world where no child is left behind
Where children everywhere are free to educate their minds.
Imagine a world where tolerance and diversity
Are the golden rule that guides humanity.
Imagine a world where people don't neglect
The beauty of the earth, and treat it with respect.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!
-- Robert Alan Silverstein (Based on Pathways To Peace's "Imagine A World")

The world will become what we envision it to be. And if we are fearful, and we think we should tense up and prepare for an ongoing battle, then that's what we'll have. But if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place. So each individual that stands up is a part of a bigger prayer. -- Russell Simmons

* Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." -- Gloria Steinem

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

* Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau * "...if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." -- Henry David Thoreau

* “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -- Harriet Tubman

* “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -- Harriet Tubman

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. -- Paul Wellstone

* "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” -- Robin Williams

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. -- Woodrow Wilson