Quotes About Change

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

We've got to replace the statues of Jefferson Davis and JZ George in the U.S. Capitol, and the people of Mississippi ought to have a say in it.

It's irresponsible to scare E.U. nationals in the U.K. by hinting that their status might change after Brexit.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Of course, we recognize that Egypt has gone through a dramatic change in government. And what their status will be going forward in terms of the relationship with our nation is something which which I'm sure will be developing over time.

The world itself is so full of changes - of negotiations, changes of position, seeing things one way, then another, gauging responses, status changes that can happen in an instant.

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

Putting a smile on kids, putting a smile on families' faces, changing people's lives with your so-called status and celebrity with your so-called impact, that's reality.

I only want to use my status as a comic actor to bring about a difference to society.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our neighborhoods, to make sure that everyone has opportunity.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.