Quotes About Change

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

Veel van onze angsten berusten op pure inbeelding. Verander je inbeelding en je zult minder angst hebben.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

De postmoderne mens lijdt aan een vreemde dissociatie, een nieuwe vorm van persoonlijkheidsverdubbeling. We klagen het systeem aan, staan er vijandig tegenover en voelen ons machteloos om het te veranderen. Anderzijds gedragen we ons op een manier die het systeem voortdurend bevestigt en uitbreidt.

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.

It must be the condition of our age. There are more explosions, but they are only the side effect of not accepting the nature of our wrongness, of believing it must be the world that is deformed instead— unsure whether to abandon or destroy it, some opt for both.

Dystopias are scary because you can see people struggling, but utopias are scarier because you can see that they stopped.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

It is odd how, when you have announced that you are leaving, it is as if you are already gone, even if your physical departure still lies months away. People begin to erase you from their minds, and you walk the halls with a feeling of growing transparency.

We all speak different languages but we all speak the same language of saving carbon and saving our planet

Climate Change - "We cannot stop it but we can slow it down

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Politics is not about power.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

It loved to happen, " she repeated. "Isn't that it? What you were saying to Mum the other night? You know," she insisted when Willa must have looked blank. Louie lowered her voice. "About love and everything. You said it just happens, it isn't something you plan for or know about. It comes from outside and changes everything. It loved to happen. Like you and me.

You'll be all right tomorrow. Watch what a difference a day makes

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.