Quotes About Adaptation

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

I go through the motions of living in society

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.