Quotes About Change

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.

It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.