Great Change Quotes - Page 2

• Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Fall, Our World, Speak

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• In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

  James Madison

  Government, Giving, Substance

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.84, Arcturus Publishing

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Two, People

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• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

  Dennis C. Blair

  Religious, Kings, Nice

  "Former US spy chief sees shift toward Asia". Interview with Elizabeth Dickinson, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2012.

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• It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Rap, Thinking

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• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Race, Vision

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  Dean Koontz

  Small Changes, Storm, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.327, Bantam

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• In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

  Christina Aguilera

  Order, Community, Needs

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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  Quintilian

  Effects

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• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  Salman Rushdie

  Culture, World, Urban

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• It is not well to make great changes in old age.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Change, Age, Wells

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• Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

  Brian Tracy

  Quality, Flexibility

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Oct 16, 2013

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• Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

  Robert Kennedy

  Moving, Journey, Essentials

  Robert F. Kennedy (1969). “America the Beautiful”

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• Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Marriage, Men, Luxury

  "Speech on Social Purity". Spring 1875.

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• Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Change, Enemy, Littles

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.277, Taylor & Francis

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• The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.

  Helen Caldicott

  War, Would Be, Generations

  Helen Caldicott (1980). “Nuclear madness: what you can do”

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• The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Men, Wheels

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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Europe, World

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

  Raymond Postgate

  Scotch, Important, Sometimes

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• It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Party, Long

  'Phineas Redux' (1874) ch. 4

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• The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.  The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.  The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Decision, Humanity

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• One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

  Charlie Pierce

  People, Dames, Disease

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• Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  People, Who Cares, Conversation

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• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

  Ron Fournier

  Morning, Destiny, Yes We Can

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