“This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.”
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“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.”
“That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.”
“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.”
“Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.”
“It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.”
“A zebra does not change its spots.”
“I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.”
“Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.”
“I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.”
“If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.”
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
“I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.”
“Even God cannot change the past.”
“Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.”
“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”
“Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.”
“Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.”
“When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.”
“Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.”
“The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.”
“I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.”
“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.”