All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.
I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the...
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
Change happens at the frontier.
There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start w...
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
