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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
David Attenborough
Journalist · British · b. 1926
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Phil Crosby
Author · American · 1926 – 2001
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Tony Benn
Politician · English · b. 1925
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr
Physicist · Danish · 1885 – 1962
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
Norman Lear
Producer · American · b. 1922
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writer · American · 1850 – 1919
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
President · American · 1856 – 1924
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leader · American · 1929 – 1968
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser
Psychologist · American
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
Talcott Parsons
Sociologist · American · 1902 – 1979
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
Chris Christie
Politician · American · b. 1962
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read
Poet · English
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher · German · 1788 – 1860
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
Novelist · American · 1892 – 1973
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
Todd Gitlin
Sociologist · American
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Rick Warren
Writer · American
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Robert Barany
Scientist · Austrian · 1876 – 1936
They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.
Kenneth Blackwell
Politician · American · b. 1948
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Barbara Mikulski
Politician · American · b. 1936
I have set out to change the language of the international system.
Clare Short
Politician · British · b. 1946
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Kevin Kelly
Editor · American
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
Marilyn vos Savant
Writer · American · b. 1946
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Francis Picabia
Artist · French · 1878 – 1953
Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.
Lee Scott
Businessman · American
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
Politician · American · 1924 – 2005
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
James Cash Penney
Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
Ernst Mayr
Scientist · German · 1904 – 2005
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
Scientist · American · 1899 – 1975
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Edsger Dijkstra
Scientist · Dutch · 1930 – 2002
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana
Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952
The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange
Politician · Norwegian · 1869 – 1938
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Daniel Keys Moran
Writer · American · b. 1962
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
Businessman · American · b. 1930
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
Phillips Brooks
Clergyman · American · b. 1835
You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
Dennis Hastert
Politician · American · b. 1942
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
Lionel Blue
Clergyman · British · b. 1930
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
Journalist · American · b. 1925
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
Dick Wolf
Producer · American · b. 1946
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
Philosopher · French · 1884 – 1962
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Emma Goldman
Activist · Lithuanian · 1869 – 1940
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet · American · b. 1919
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Christopher Lasch
Historian · American · 1932 – 1994
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
James Lovelock
Scientist · English · b. 1919
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
Estelle Morris
Politician · English
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield
Author · New Zealander · 1888 – 1923
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Clergyman · American · 1898 – 1993