Importance of being Qualitative

A few days back i was discussing with my colleague about the civic problems and issues that marr the Indian society.We both put different points and always my dear friend made one statement and i quote him here "We need to change the system.We are like that ,nothing can be done."
During the after hours i thought about this statement "Changing the system."It is a cliche.Now why i would say this is since anyone and everyone can make this statement without understanding the gravity of this statement.You might what gravity or what weight this statement has?
So lets delve deeper into this statement.So the first question that arises is who created the system?
Who runs the system? The answer to this rather simple question is also simple.The society created the system and it is the society who runs the system.
Now what is this word society? And any person will say we the people constitute the society.
So changing the society means changing the people.And that is the difficult task.
Because when things come to us we have one more ready made statement that "We are like this,We cannot change."But why is this so?Why are we so stubborn we cannot change? And in fact not even make a try to change ourselves.
From birth we all are born with the same nature to get angry , to be moved by greed,to be moved by lust .
But is this human form given to us for being what we are born with or to improve upon ourselves.To change ourselves is it not the process of evolution.Is it necessary that what our grand fathers used to do the same things we do?
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has rightly remarked about traditions.He says that people , government and rulers all come and go into wilderness but traditions they stick .Traditions as such are good for the society since they bind us to our past.But we shall have to break when it prevents us from our forward march.
Here taking analogy of tradition to our behavior , is it not the same thing which applies to us humans as well?Our basic nature which has not changed in the past so many years which is preventing our forward march.March in the society where all the humans are equal,where man acts on basis of our rational thought.
I believe it is high time we break the shackles of our impotence to change our selves and try to improve upon self so that we do not need to change the system but the system gets changed.