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Quotes About Change

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
~ John Clellon Holmes
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
~ Blaise Pascal
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
~ Harry S. Truman
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
~ John Major
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.
~ Peter Maurin
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
~ KRS-One
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
~ LL Cool J
The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.
~ Mao Zedong
The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
~ Ralph Abernathy
Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.
~ Salvador Allende
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.
~ Samuel R. Delany
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.
~ Frances Fox Piven
You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
~ Marcel Proust
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
~ James H. Cone
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
~ William Sloane Coffin
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
~ Alvin Toffler
What has changed in 40 years? It's very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.
~ Robert Fripp
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
~ Benjamin Spock