Quotes About Change

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.