In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. —Paul Harvey More about this quote Tags: history memory perception change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: politics progress change dissatisfaction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. —Bertolt Brecht More about this quote Tags: reality change reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: change control intentions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: politics perfection progress change Plato Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: hope freedom change improvement guarantee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. —Selena Kitt in Grace More about this quote Tags: truth love change story Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: future change planning preperation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was another of those big life-changing moments when you didn’t know what the next ten seconds would bring but you knew that nothing would ever be the same after. —Sarra Manning in Unsticky More about this quote Tags: life time future change moments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The old futures have a way of hanging around. … Everyone sort of knows that the real future is going to be cluttered with all the same junk we have today, except it will be old and beat up and there will be more of it. —William Gibson More about this quote Tags: presence time future change objects Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. —Hazel Henderson More about this quote Tags: reality pessimism future perception change uncertainty transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every government, whatever its form, character, or color — be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi, or Bolshevist — is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics change government conservatism Nazi monarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics reality religion dogma purpose change ambition evolution triviality counterproductive Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we call evil is only a necessary moment in our endless development. —Franz Kafka More about this quote Tags: development evil morality change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Simone Weil once said, "I would like to achieve the kind of radiance that can bring about nonviolently what other people might have to do violently." And, of course, we see teachers like that. We see parents like that, who have a kind of radiance so that they don't have to raise their voice; they don't have to beat their children. . . . They simply make a different atmosphere. —Sissela Bok More about this quote Tags: change parents nonviolence violence persuasion radiance yelling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email