Quotes About Change

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

La resistencia pacífica es nuestra única esperanza.

There's no rule that says public opinion has to be consistent.

Tommy stood on a chair and made a speech of welcome; then Billy had to respond. "The war has changed us all," he said. "I remember when people used to say the rich were put on this earth by God to rule over us lesser people." That was greeted by scornful laughs. "Many men were cured of that delusion by fighting under the command of upper-class officers who should not have been put in charge of a Sunday school outing." The other veterans nodded knowingly.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

When Ethel said we should give everyone free education and free health care and unemployment insurance, I told her she was living in a dream world. But now look: everything she campaigned for has come to pass, and yet England is still England.

In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Cuánto tiempo necesitáis antes de que acabéis admitiendo que el comunismo es un fracaso?

He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.

Vivimos en una tiranía brutal [… ] Tenemos que hacer algo para mantener viva la esperanza.

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio. El

Obsolete uniforms are a sure sign of an institution in need of reform." Dave

It was a sudden reminder that life was unpredictable.

Los buenos tiempos se van para no volver nunca más.

Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.

O deleite transformou-se em tolerância, depois em impaciência e muitas vezes, mais para o fim, em desprezo.

glásnost y perestroika, apertura

se quedó asombrado ante el desconocido en que se había convertido.

Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago—it's all just three inches lower.

Um bebê era como uma revolução, pensou Grigori: você poderia até começar uma, mas era impossível controlar o que seria dela.

Philip stepped forward to whip the king. He was glad he had lived to see this. After today, he thought, the world will never be quite the same.

There are no saints in politics. But imperfect people can still change the world for the better.

Un bebé era como una revolución, pensó Grigori: era posible iniciarla, pero no controlar qué derrotero tomaba. La

Perhaps. Still, somehow Russia must join the twentieth century. Either we, the nobility, must do it, or the people will destroy us and do it themselves.