Quotes About Change

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.