“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”
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.
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.”
“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”
“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
“Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.”
“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.”
“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.”
“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.”
“The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.”
“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”
“Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”
“I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.”
“If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.”
“I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.”
“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”