Quotes About Change

There have been several attempts at setting up electronic mail systems within the federal post office administration, but all have failed, not for technical reasons, but because the post office is resistant to change, as it is locked into a bureaucratic system in which patronage and civil-service job security are far more important than efficiency. Given that history, it seems to me more likely that electronic mail will come about through private rather than governmental action.

Margaret, are you grievingOver Goldengrove unleaving?

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

Leave comfort root-room.

Men kan weg moeten, zonder dat men ergens heen moet. Dat zijn de gevallen, dat men ergens vandaan moet.

Wat weg is, ben je kwijt.

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Are you sure there's no way of getting the lad's fancies out of his head? There are so many other things a young manwom can take up nowadays. What about hairdressing? Beard-perms and hair-sets are so fashionable at the moment.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

The coming wave of automation will move way beyond the factory or public infrastructure and into our very biological processes such as aging and even giving birth. Used as we are to the gradual societal shifts brought about by previous change waves, often allowing decades to adjust and respond, I ask if we as a tribe are ready to abdicate our human sovereignty to the faceless forces of technology? Are you ready for the biggest loss of free will and individual human control in history?

To be without history is to be trapped in a present where oppressive social relations appear natural and inevitable

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Believe the Word, speak the Word, and act on the Word — it is a creative force. The Word is a double-edged sword. Often it places a demand on you to change attitudes and behaviors toward the person for whom you are praying.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

There's no such thing as security. There never has been.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Green Christmas, white Easter

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

If you get dealt a bad hand, fold and ask for new cards. There's no sense in hanging on to it for years, hoping things will change.

It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.