Changes In Society Quotes

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.

Women’s Day Women are the real architects of society.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.

When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.