Quotes About Change

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.