Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Things do not change; we change.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

You can’t do something forever.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.