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Quotes About Change

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.
~ Mark Kirk
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
~ Maurice Sendak
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.
~ Mortimer Collins
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
~ Murray Kempton
The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.
~ Nick Cohen
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
~ Orson Scott Card
I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
~ R. A. Salvatore
Don't change the man. Change his environment.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!
~ L. Neil Smith
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
~ Agnes Repplier
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
~ Alan Kay
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
~ Alan Paton
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
~ Amy Hempel
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
~ Andrei Platonov
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
~ Ann Landers
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
~ Anthony Trollope
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
~ Arthur Miller