Quotes About Change

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.