Quotes About Change

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way

Had a gentleman on one of my crews this week, he reminded me of my younger self. I was putting the home back together and he was taking it apart. Karma life does not stop once you are successful instead it reintroduces itself through younger versions of you.

I only know how to be me and also become a new version of me each day otherwise what's the point of living life

If you cannot teach a new dog old tricks then let him be and smile

I'm not disabled I am parked in transition

Keep your crumbs and the seats at your table, I will go build my own table and seat all Savvy Turtle's like me and we will change the world for the better

Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people were free to change governments at will. They didn't need permission from incumbents.

If you cant look deep inside someone to see the butterfly building within then you deserve to watch the moth transform and fly away

Knowledge without action is dead

If you try to put yourself in the position of a Roman of the late fifth century, it is easy to imagine how tempting it would have been to conclude that nothing had changed. That certainly was the optimistic conclusion. To have thought otherwise might have been frightening. And why come to a frightening conclusion when a reassuring one was at hand?

Few are inclined to imagine that apparently minor changes in climate or technology or some other variable can somehow be responsible for severing connections to the world of their fathers. The Romans were reluctant to acknowledge the changes unfolding around them. So are we.

While not every drought or adverse climatic change resulted in the breakdown of public authority, many did.

legal concepts as "avowal" and "distraint" that have now all but vanished.

Microprocessing reduces the size that groups must stain in order to be effective in the use and control of violence.

Yet "perfection," as C. Northcote Parkinson shrewdly noted, "is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning.

In two previous volumes, Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning, we argued that the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate, topography, microbes, and technology alter the logic of violence. They transform the way people organize their livelihoods and defend themselves.

There is a striking analogy between the situation at the end of the fifteenth century, when life had become thoroughly saturated by organized religion, and that of today, when the world has become saturated with politics.

new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state.

If our deductions are correct, the politics of the next century will be much more varied and less important than that to which we have become accustomed.

In history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced."1 —JOHAN HUIZINGA

The Information Revolution will destroy the monopoly of power of the nation-state as surely as the Gunpowder Revolution destroyed the Church's monopoly.

James Dale Davidson