Quotes about Change

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

That too seems unnecessarily severe, but we mustn't judge too harshly, for those who have gone through anything like a dramatic conversion usually stagger a bit too far in one direction before they correct their course and learn where the best forward path lies.

Of the many societal problems Wilberforce might have thought needed his attention, slavery would have been the least visible of all, and by a wide margin.

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?

Give up the old so God can perform the new in your life.