Quotes About Change

The end of economic growth does not necessarily mean we've reached the end of qualitative improvements in human life.

Despite their economic advantages, specialization and globalization in some ways reduce resilience — a quality that is essential to our adapting to the end of growth.

climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage in their means but through the changed pattern in the distribution of deference and power.

reimagining your life is going to be messy.

pushed by pain or pulled by possibility.

Repacking is all about the why; it's

Identity is at the heart of repacking.

Time changes the places that knew us, and if we go back after years, still even then it is not the same spot; the gate swings differently, new thatch has been put on the old gables, the road has been widened, and the sward the driven sheep lingered on has gone. (Wild Flowers)

Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides, even those between generations.

Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Fark?nda olmasan?z dahi etkilenirsiniz.

In order to bring about a convulsive political change, it was essential to intensify the existing social tensions to the point where all would be driven to choose sides in what would thus be established as a simplistic equation of class conflict. Marxists and their ideological inheritors described this as sharpening the contradictions of society.

Was a time... Sure. And there was another fucking time the summers never seemed to end and you'd never paid for it in your life. Remember that? Time passes, Max - get over it. Skip the fucking nostalgia, let's get where we're at.

To recommend change, as this report does, is not to suggest that the problems we address will disappear or no longer require attention. At most they will disappear from view, and this may very well be a counterproductive outcome, since it cannot fail to encourage a complacency we can ill-afford.

The skeins are tangled. Some butterfly shaman up in the north beats his puny fucking wings and the storm gathers before you know it. Chaos gathers, like a bad poet's verse. We run damage control, but the rules of engagement have changed. You think we're any happier about it than you? We've got our balls to the wall here, hero. We're fighting half blind, nothing works, not the way it should, not anymore. Which

On Harlan's World, streetlife has a stripped-back elegance to it, an economy of motion and gesture that feels almost like choreography if you're not used to it. I grew up with it, so the effect doesn't register until it's not there any more.

Residual biosystems glitches, they said, and told me it'd fade with time. I believed them, because in the end almost everything does.

We're all small and harmless once, Archidi. But we all grow up. And some of us grow up needing killing.

Le progrès est toujours difficile à définir

It'll take a stronger kind of human to deal with it, but that's always been the case, with every major step in knowledge or technology that we take. You can't get by on past models, you have to keep moving forward, building better minds and bodies. Either that or the universe moves in like a swamp panther and eats you alive.

Votre culture est trop superficielle pour comprendre la vie terrienne, et votre expérience est limitée. Aimer la même personne durant deux cent cinquante ans… À la fin, si vous y réussissez, si vous déjouez les pièges de l'ennui et de la complaisance, l'amour disparaît… remplacé par un sentiment proche de la vénération.

The lawyers I saw there had about as much in common with the man who had defended me at fifteen as automated machine rifle fire has with farting.