Quotes About Change

The current extra-parliamentary protest movement of the indignados in Spain may potentially make some healthy inroads into this.

Franco's coalition was driven by a very particular desire: that of both the colonial military elite and its civilian supporters to subject social change to court martial and restore their ideal of a static society.

crossing the lines, which is probably as good a definition of how social change happens as one can find.2

Childhood is a short season.

If you rest, you rust.

You rest, you rust.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way.

The thing about gardens is that everyone thinks they go on growing, that in winter they sleep and in spring they rise.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way. That has been a surprisingly pleasant lesson to learn in life.

Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know.

If there's no apparent reason for something to change, then why does it change? Is it a dog's nature to vary behaviour when life becomes too comfortable? Is it ours?

We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

No. Kraka is here. He will always be here." She held so still. "I lived as his mistress. What can change that?" "The future," said Berg, in the darkness.

Like oceans, we ebb and flow and are in constant motion. We have a deep desire to keep things as they are, and a contradictory desire to expand beyond our current limits. Times of relative equilibrium allow us to build the strength we need for times of movement. It can be difficult for us to know which stage we are in and whether we are moving forward at all. But underneath our seemingly individual current, we are ultimately being pulled forward toward a connection with the greater whole.

As a political movement, feminism seeks to transform society by challenging and changing social institutions. Religion, on the other hand, seeks first to transform individuals through a personal relationship with God, which then results in a desire to work for the transformation of society.

While Lucretia [Mott]'s public life was inspirational, I also want to to discuss her private life: her quiet actions. I agree with Lucretia's ethic that private acts of integrity are the foundation of a more just and more equitable society. She taught us that small moments of love in action can add up to potent agents of change.

Our relationships are the crucible of our greatest growth.

If feminism doesn't frighten people with power, it is toothless.