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Quotes About Change

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity
~ Mikhail Bakunin
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.
~ Johan Huizinga
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
~ Enele Sopoaga
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
~ Georg Buchner
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.
~ Russell Brand
The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.
~ Billy Graham
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
~ Henri Bergson
Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.
~ Philipp Otto Runge
Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
~ Max Brooks
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.
~ Aberjhani
The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
~ Grace Lee Boggs
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
~ David Suzuki
Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.
~ Leoluca Orlando
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
~ Veronica Roth
If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
~ Yann Martel
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.
~ Christopher Flavin
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
~ Aberjhani
Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.
~ Georges Bataille
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
~ Georg Buchner
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
~ Patton Oswalt