Quotes About Change

About half the population thinks that every person in Congress, including their own representative, should be thrown out. That's the center not holding.

Small wonder that President Obama advises us to look forward, not backward—a convenient doctrine for those who hold the clubs. Those who are beaten by them tend to see the world differently, much to our annoyance.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win," Mahatma Gandhi.

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

Oggi come ieri, non c'è motivo di pensare che siamo governati da leggi misteriose e sconosciute, anziché da semplici decisioni prese all'interno di istituzioni che sono soggette alla volontà umana, istituzioni umane, che devono dimostrare la propria legittimità e se non superano l'esame possono essere sostituite da altre più libere e più giuste, com'è accaduto spesso in passato.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

There is no contradiction here. People live and suffer and endure in the real world of existing society, and any decent person should favor employing what means are available to safeguard and benefit them, even if a long-term goal is to displace these devices and construct preferable alternatives. In

As Chomsky says, if you act like there is no possibility of change for the better, you guarantee that there will be no change for the better. The choice is ours, the choice is yours. Robert

the educational systems are oriented to maintaining the existing social and economic structures instead of transforming them

History doesn't go in a straight line... Over time there's a kind of a general trajectory towards a more just society, with regressions and reversals of course.

there's no law of nature which says that control over capital has to be in a few hands-that's like saying political power has to be in a few hands. Why? There wasn't a law that said that the king and nobles had to run everything, and there isn't a law that says that corporate owners and managers have to run everything either. These are social arrangements. They developed historically, they can be changed historically.

I mean, it's nice to have the laws, but it's nice partly because it makes it easier to struggle for your rights-it's not that the laws give you the rights. Laws can be on the books and mean absolutely nothing

if you assume that there is no hope,then you guarantee that there will be no hope. if you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is possibility that you can contribute to making a better world

One choice is to assume the worst, and then you can be guaranteed that it'll happen. The other is to assume that there's some hope for change, in which case it's possible that you can help to effect change. So you've got two choices, one guarantees the worst will happen, the other leaves open the possibility that things might get better. Given those choices, a decent person doesn't hesitate.

The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. This is not pointed at anyone. —Max Planck

there are moments clearly when the seeming solidity of the governance structures are revealed to be rather fragile. And when they are, this is a moment when people begin to call into question all kinds of things about the way in which their society operates. So legitimation crises are extremely troubling moments for governance structures and for elites. As Hall is arguing here, this is invariably the case. And people who want radical change need to be prepared for those moments.

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.

Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I'll show you a real asshole.

I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I realized something else no one tells you: that a child is a grenade. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.