“Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.”
Change is the only constant, which does not make it any easier to deal with. These quotes explore transformation — personal, social, political — and the uncomfortable truth that growth almost always requires leaving something familiar behind.
“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”
“Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.”
“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.”
“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.”
“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”
“I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.”
“I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
“There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.”
“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.”
“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.”
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.”
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.”