Quotes on Change

You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

The One remains, the many change and pass;_x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;_x000D_ _x000D_ Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,_x000D_ _x000D_ Stains the white radiance of Eternity,_x000D_ _x000D_ Until Death tramples it to fragments.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

I think if we're going to be serious as a city, as a country, about addressing climate change, addressing inequality and racial disparities, we have to start taking action at the scale that matches the urgency of the problems.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.