Quotes About Change

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.

When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

Temporary things can not give you the permanent results

We are all migrants through time.

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

The decay of power is changing the world.

Specifically it is about how power—the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something—is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.

es impresionante el poco consenso que existe sobre la orientación de los cambios en nuestro mundo y las previsibles amenazas, por no hablar de la escasez de ideas realistas acerca de cómo hacerles frente.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

La idea tradicional de que es inevitable que las desigualdades económicas persistan e incluso empeoren hace que todos seamos, en cierto modo, marxistas.

The decoupling of power from size, and thus the decoupling of the capacity to use power effectively from the control of a large Weberian bureaucracy, is changing the world. And this decoupling invites a disquieting thought: if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect ever to know stability again?

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.

La degradación del poder ha cambiado las condiciones y las posibilidades del conflicto y ha aumentado la influencia de los actores pequeños, no estatales y no tradicionales,

somos más vulnerables a las malas ideas y los malos líderes.

cuando las fronteras se vuelven porosas y la población gobernada —o controlada— es más móvil, a las organizaciones establecidas se les complica mantener su dominio.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder.