Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
Interpretation
Change enhances tradition rather than undermines it, presenting opportunities for growth.
This quote by Prince Philip emphasizes the idea that change can coexist with tradition, suggesting that rather than weakening established customs, change can actually fortify and enrich them. It portrays change as a dual-edged sword that brings both challenges and opportunities, encouraging a positive view towards embracing transformation in various aspects of life.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing organizational shifts and how they will enhance company culture.
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.
All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive.
When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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