Change Quotes - page 32

The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy. (Geoffrey Howe)
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise. View quote
Tony Benn
Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love. View quote
John Bowring
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived. View quote
Enoch Powell
Stop yelling at the movie, you ain't never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector. View quote
David Icke
I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple. View quote
David Icke
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. View quote
George Orwell
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. View quote
George Orwell
One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. View quote
George Orwell
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. View quote
John Cheever
Change is one thing, progress is another. (Bertrand Russell)
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful. View quote
Linus Torvalds
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. View quote
David Harvey
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. View quote
David Harvey
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else. View quote
Charles Stross
On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more. View quote
Richard Henry Horne
Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors-and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was-What may the God not do? View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. (Vanessa Redgrave)
I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. View quote
Tony Abbott
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. View quote
Isaac Asimov
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. View quote
Edward R. Murrow