Quotes About Change

You can't change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.