Quotes about Change

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

Forget the past.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.