“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”
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“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”
“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.”
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.”
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.”
“Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.”
“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.”
“Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.”
“People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.”
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
“I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.”
“It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.”
“Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.”
“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
“As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.”
“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”