Quotes About Change

El crecimiento económico y el cambio tecnológico están acompañados por lo que el gran economista Joseph Schumpeter denominó «destrucción creativa

The most important lesson is that extractive institutions cannot generate sustained technological change for two reasons: the lack of economic incentives and resistance by the elites.

There should be no presumption that any critical juncture will lead to a successful political revolution or to change for the better. History is full of examples of revolutions and radical movements replacing one tyranny with another, in a pattern that the German sociologist Robert Michels dubbed the iron law of oligarchy, a particularly pernicious form of the vicious circle.

The powerful and the rest of society will often disagree about which set of institutions should remain in place and which ones should be changed.

La lección más importante que se puede aprender es que las instituciones extractivas no pueden generar un cambio tecnológico sostenido por dos razones: la falta de incentivos económicos y la resistencia por parte de las élites.

Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power

La combinación de innovación tecnológica y organizativa proporciona el modelo para el progreso económico que transformó las economías mundiales que llegarían a ser ricas.

La destrucción creativa redistribuye no solamente la renta y la riqueza, sino también el poder político

Such critical junctures are important because there are formidable barriers against gradual improvements, resulting from the synergy between extractive political and economic institutions and the support they give each other. The persistence of this feedback loop creates a vicious circle. Those who benefit from the status quo are wealthy and well organized, and can effectively fight major changes that will take away their economic privileges and political power.

Al cabo de poco tiempo, a Bill comenzaron a agotársele los consejos y el whisky, así que yo me levanté para irme.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Monster tidak terlahir keji begitu saja. Mereka tumbuh, berkembang, menjadi monster.

Look at me! I roar. Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a monster now. And I'm hungry. Meera! Anotoine whines. Prae! Please, I beg you. You're civilised people. Help me! We can't, Prae says coldly. Even if we wanted to - and personally I have no problem with him gutting you - we couldn't. He's not ours to control. He's one of your specimens. You helped create him - now you have to deal with him

Bloody humans!' I grumbled, kicking a postbox in anger. 'Bloody Vampires! We should all be turtles or something!

I'm not a human anymore

Death is not the end. It is a midway state.

A man should know when it is time to step aside.

Towards dawn, as we were making camp, Vancha suddenly burst out laughing. Look at us! he hooted, as we stared at him uncertainly. We've been moping all night like four sad souls at a funeral. What idiots we've been! You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, Sire? Mr. Crepsley asked archly. Charna's guts! Vancha cursed. The sentence has been there since the start — all that's changed is that we know about it! A little knowledge is a... dangerous thing, Harkat muttered.

Gli eventi chiave del passato non possono essere cambiati, ma le persone coinvolte si. Evanna mi aveva detto che se fosse tornata indietro e avesse ucciso Adolf Hitler, l'universo l'avrebbe rimpiazzato con qualcun'altro. Gli eventi fondamentali della seconda guerra mondiale si sarebbero verificati con le stesse modalità, scatenati però da una figura differente. [...] Quindi non potevo modificare il corso della storia intorno a me, ma potevo togliermi di mezzo.

I've spent enough time on the dead. Time to return to the business of the living and those caught in-between.

What you're saying is that there's no point worrying about the past, because we can't change it? Basically, she nodded, then leant over, one green eye shining brightly, one brown eye gleaming dully. A mortal can drive himself mad thinking about the nature of the universal puzzle. Concern yourself only with the problems of the present and you will get along fine.

No one could work harder to be happy, Tocqueville observes of Americans, marveling at the ceaseless, restless energy they expand in search of a better life. Rushing from one thing tho the next, an American will travel hundreds of miles in a day. He will build a house in which to pass his old age and then sell it before the roof is on. He will continually change paths for fear of missing the shortest cut leading to happiness.

If the country were open on its borders, new forms would certainly immigrate, and this would also seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants. Let it be remembered how powerful the influence of a single introduced tree or mammal has been shown to be.