Quotes About Change

Public health and social reform are the indispensable preconditions of any kind of general enlightenment

The really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power.

categorical imperative that it is with you. You think first of getting the biggest possible output in the shortest possible time. We think first of human beings and their satisfactions. Changing jobs doesn't make for the biggest output in the fewest days. But most people like it better than doing one kind of job all their lives. If it's a choice between mechanical efficiency and human satisfaction, we choose satisfaction.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. "Till

To most people radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of the dilemma is to persist at all costs in the ignorance which permits one to go on doing wrong in the comforting belief that by doing so one is doing one's duty- one's duty to the company, to the shareholders, to the family, the city, the state, the fatherland, the Church.

El cuerpo social persiste aunque sus células cambien.

Dünyay? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek istedim, anlad?m ki kesin olarak deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸiniz tek ÅŸey bizzat kendinizdir.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

you can't make tragedies without social instability.

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

Lo que ustedes necesitan es algo con lágrimas, para variar. Aquí nada cuesta lo bastante.

of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

But God doesn't change. Men do, though. What difference does that make? All the difference in the world.

to shift the emphasis from

Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began.

Every change is a menace to stability.

the social body persists although the component cells may change.

Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse. The mescalin taker sees no reason for doing aanything in particular and finds most of the causes for which, at ordinary times, he was prepared to act and suffer, profoundly uninteresting. He can't be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.

Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse. The mescalin taker sees no reason for doing anything in particular and finds most of the causes for which, at ordinary times, he was prepared to act and suffer, profoundly uninteresting. He can't be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.

Outliving beauty's outward with a mind that doth renew swifter than blood decays.

You can't make tragedies without social instability.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad.