Quotes About Change

For better or worse, the societies of the twenty-first century are likely to be more unequal than those we have lived in during the twentieth.

We believe that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 culminates the era of the nation-state, a peculiar two-hundred-year phase in history that began with the French Revolution.

Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place.

Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.

The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.

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.

An eruption of microparasites, such as a viral pandemic, rather than drastic changes in climate or topography, would more likely disrupt the megapolitical predominance of technology.

Every social system, however strongly or weakly it clings to power, pretends that its rules will never be superseded.

We live in the time of the computer, but our dreams are still spun on the loom.

The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.

You cannot friend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they're so depressed at realizing their old life was no better than what we have now?

Thomas thought Chuck's personality had gone from mildly irritating to intolerable.

He didn't know which was worse: that Newt seemed to be slipping already or that Minho—the one who should have been able to control himself—was acting like such a slinthead.

He'd been at the Glade for roughly twenty-four hours. One full day. And look at all the things that had happened. All the terrible things. Surely it could only get better.

it was like opening up that vast void within all over again. As if during the days since her disappearance a thick liquid had slowly seeped in and filled that chamber, only to have it all sucked out again when she came and went.

So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.

The world is changing

Burn me--you grew some nice-sized eggs over night, now didn't ya?

He's right it does not matter anymore because the people we were before the maze they don't even exist anymore what does matter is who we are now and what we do right now

Tu vida anterior ya no existe más. Una nueva se ha iniciado. Recuerda. Corre. Sobrevive.

El miedo se convirtió en curiosidad y, luego, en aburrimiento.