Quotes about Change

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

And this, too, shall pass away.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.