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Real change in society must start from individual initiative. -- Dalai Lama
I want to initiate a change in society in the long term. -- Francois Hollande
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature. -- Camille Paglia
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. -- Lucy Parsons
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society. -- Jung Chang
We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter. -- Jeff Olson
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power. -- Karl Marx
Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit. -- Willis Harman
No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms. -- James Morcan
I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced. -- Cynthia Kauffman
For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and--if disseminated widely enough--should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence. -- Alice Miller
Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new. -- Mao Zedong
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics. -- Kenneth D. Wald
We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now. -- Jerry Garcia
As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect -- Joao Matod
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. -- Beck
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... -- Clay Shirky
society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them. -- Shirley Williams
If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers. -- Leymah Gbowee
Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today. -- Steve Maraboli
Theres always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well. -- Matt Bomer
There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well. -- Matt Bomer
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. -- Trip Hawkins
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. -- William Hague
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating. -- Dolores Huerta
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will. -- David Blunkett
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself, -- Julian Bond
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. -- Henry David Thoreau
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. -- Paul Keating
When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things. -- James F. Cooper
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society. -- John Major
Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead -- Kwame
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. -- Pope John Paul II

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