Quotes About Change

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success a victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

Men have become fools with their tools.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

Even if Democrats do succeed, it won't save us. While there are many great Democrats and many exceptions to the trends I have described in this book, by and large the story has been a disappointing one. We have surveyed this party's thoughts and deeds from the Seventies to the present, we have watched them abandon whole classes and regions and industries, and we know now what the results have been. Their leadership faction has no intention of doing what the situation requires.

In the years before then, he recalls, a very different breed filled the party's precinct positions; the sort of folks who "would donate a thousand-dollar check to the Republican Party, and do not a darn thing.

backlash leaders systematically downplay the politics of economics. The movement's basic premise is that culture outweighs economics

raise less corn and more hell.

Indeed, over two-thirds of Kansas counties lost population between 1980 and 2000, some by as much as 25 percent. I am told that there are entire towns in the western part of the state getting by on Social Security; no one is left there but the aged. There are no doctors, no shoe stores. One town out here even sold its public school on eBay.

What is certain is that the liberalism of scolding will never give rise to the kind of mass movement that this country needs.

New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,Or busy housewife ply her evening care.

A FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY , TOMORROW DIES. ALL THAT WE WISH TO STAY, TEMPTS AND THEN FILES

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,In blast-beruffled plume.

And meadow rivulets overflow,And drops on gate bars hang in a row,And rooks in families homeward go,And so do I.

The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained.

Ah, no; the years, the years;Down their chiseled names the raindrop plows.