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

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

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

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Man, all lives matter.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

The status quo sucks.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Things do not change; we change.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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.

Money does not change people, people change.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

There is nothing permanent except change.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

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.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.