More quotations tagged with “change”
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice.
—Noam Chomsky
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
—Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.
—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
—Bertolt Brecht
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
—James Thurber