quotations about change
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.
ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS
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Fear and Conventionality
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
speech, Oct. 29, 1867
There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
Smiley's People
Nature obliges everything to change about.
One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age;
Another grows in its place from a negligible start.
So time alters the whole nature of the world
And earth passes from one state to another.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
MAYA ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Mutation
Change in all things is sweet.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Lasting change can only come from within.
AHSOKA TANO
"The Academy", Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls
Cause the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard
U2
"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Vague Thoughts on Art
Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Windup Girl
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
ANNE RICE
Pandora
The best way to understand something is to try to change it.
JEROME BRUNER
New York Times, June 7, 2016