That is simply a modernized version of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy's famous quote:
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Yes. Change the way people think about us + change the way we think about ourselves,
People change the world; objects, unless they are destructive, aren't known for changing the world.
according to the information i found at PBS http://www.pbs.org/kcet/globaltribe/voices/voi_gandhi.html AMY ELDON: One of Gandhiji's most famous sayings is, "We must be the change we wish to see." In what context did he say that and what does it really mean? ARUN GANDHI: Well he said this when he was speaking after prayer service and he mentioned this because people kept saying to him that the world has to change for us to change. He said, "No, the world will not change if we don't change." So we have to make the beginning ourselves. It has always been our human nature to blame someone else for everything that is happening. It's never us. We are never at fault. And he tried to make us realize that we are just as much in the fault as anybody else. Unless we change ourselves and help people around us change, nobody will change because then everybody will be waiting for the other person to change. there is also an audio file of this statement by his son Arun, who continues to be an advocate for peace in the wake of his father mahatma.
It's our nature to destroy ourselves.
Unless you were or are a button manufacturer, I can see no reason why zippers would have made the world a more desperate place to live
william shakesphere.
Jesus Christ, Noam Chomsky.
To point things out about ourselves, our world or our culture using exxageration.
So the we can have some heat and light to warm ourselves.
Psychologists refer to the state of awareness of ourselves and the world around us as consciousness. This includes our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions of the external environment.
Mahatma Gandhi said "You must be the change you want to see in the world."
Humans, as we endanger far more than ourselves.