Quotes About Change

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.