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Quotes About Transformation

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
~ Ulrich Beck
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
~ Alexis Carrel
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
~ Bill W.
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.
~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
~ Jill Soloway
It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.
~ Isaac Asimov
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
~ Isaac Asimov
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
~ P. Chidambaram
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
~ Charles James Fox
Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.
~ Pope Francis
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
~ Walter Weyl
If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
~ Ivan Illich
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.
~ Clay Shirky
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
~ Andrew Sullivan
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.
~ Gary Shteyngart
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
~ Philip Yancey
We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
~ Hillary Clinton
People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].
~ Wangari Maathai
As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.
~ Iggy Pop
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
~ Jose Saramago
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
~ Mark Twain
The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
~ John F. Kennedy