Quotes About Change

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.