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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

Businessman · American

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

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