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“On the basis of the preliminary theory that resistance to change is a combination of an individual reaction to frustration with strong group-induced forces it seemed that the most appropríate methods for overcoming the resistance to change would be group methods”
John R. P. French (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When climate change is running faster than we are, everything must be done to defeat climate change.”
António Guterres (born 1949) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said in a visit to Nigeria in 2019. Recorded in an Instagram post on UN Environment
“Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”
Alan Rickman (1946–2016) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Alan Rickman on "Nobel Son" by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
“We need to change the meat, because we aren’t going to change human nature.”
Bruce Friedrich (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Nathaniel Popper, This Animal Activist Used to Get in Your Face. Now He’s Going After Your Palate., New York Times, March 2019
“If you look at our country's history, change doesn't come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people.”
Aziz Ansari (born 1983) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saturday Night Live (monologue), 21 January 2017.
“Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of—what?”
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That this change of view as to the basis of science cannot take place without misunderstanding, or without giving an opportunity to those who dislike science to decry its weaknesses, is only natural. To change the basis of operations during a campaign always gives a chance to the enemy, but the chance must be risked if thereby we place ourselves permanently in a position of greater strength...”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true innovator is a big pain in the ass, he doesn't like anything and he has to change the rules, he has to change his habits, he has to redo an organization and we are often not prepared.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can change the leader, you can't change the numbers. We've got to focus on the issue here, which is delivering on the Brexit demand of the British people. That means leaving the customs union and leaving the single market.”
David Davis (born 1948) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Minister rejects 'May should quit' reports BBC News (10 March 2019)
“The Core knows what Teilhard de Chardin and other sentimentalists refused to acknowledge: evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.”
Dan Simmons (1948–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes 11 guys to change the world. It takes five to change a university. We can do this.”
Robert P. George (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the vote, you'll change nothing in this country. Nothing, absolutely nothing. We'll only get change, unfortunately, when we go into a civil war here someday and do a work the military regime didn't do, killing as much as thirty thousand people, starting with FHC. It's all right if some innocent people die. Innocent people die in many wars.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) at the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 Octob…
“Climate change is a crisis. It is upon us, And so one of the very few things I will ask of this house on my departure is that you please take the politics out of climate change.”
Jacinda Ardern (born 1980) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacinda Ardern delivers final speech to New Zealand parliament rfi (May 4, 2023)
“Certainly we tend to be resistant to change, on the whole, but that is because we have learned the hard way that change for its own sake is not a good idea, and that if something works more or less satisfactorily, it is best not to alter it without long and careful thought.”
George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Change, opportunity, and responsibility. We’re living in a period of unprecedented change and unprecedented opportunity. Especially for the people in this room, unprecedented need for responsibility.”
Mary Meeker (born 1959) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2018 Code Conference: "Mary Meeker's 2018 internet trends report" (30 May 2018)
“Superstition has caused so much confusion, darkness, and deception. Dogma has been used to tyrannize over the lives of the people. So, this is the time for change and of some transformation based on reason, science, critical thinking, and humanity. People are yearning for freedom and emancipation. Humanism is critical in delivering that change and in the realization of social renewal.”
“Are there people who simply can't change their diet? There certainly are. Now, you have to ask, ‘Are they given all the information? Are they given all the motivation? Do they have the opportunity and the environment to support this?’ Most of the time, when I have a patient who can't change their diet, it's because of their surroundings. Environment is huge. Culture is huge.”
Kim A. Williams (born 1955) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in the book What the Health by Eunice Wong (Xlibris, 2017).
“When men change, nations change.”
Frank Buchman (1878–1961) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remaking the World: The Speeches of Frank N.D. Buchman, Blandford Press 1947, revised 1958, p. 187
“Maitreya says 'To get rid of war is not so difficult. It's really very simple. You just have to have a change of heart. That's all. You just have to change your heart.' Send it out to be cleaned... dry cleaned heart... you have to look at life differently. You have to look at your self differently to understand what we're here, what we're here for, why we're in incarnation at all....”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Over the ages, if we had had a more open attitude to knowledge, to change of consciousness, to change of perception of the possibilities of life and the nature of the reality in which we live, people like Galileo or Copernicus would have had altogether easier lives.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most progressives are not as outspoken against U.S. military interventions or what she (Tulsi Gabbard) refers to as “regime change wars.” She witnessed the impact of regime change on the people of Iraq, as well as U.S. troops, and that inspired her to talk more about the human cost of war and challenge the military industrial-complex.”
Kevin Gosztola (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Businesses that fail to change die, while their men move on. Militaries that fail to change move on, while their men die. {DCJ 16, July 2018}”
Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In life we all change: on the basis of our experiences, of things that happen. Talking to my kids, I understood that for [them], sexual orientation isn't even a topic: it's like putting on a dress that you can change, and nobody cares what it's like.”
Alessandra Mussolini (born 1962) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andrea Carlo, "Alessandra Mussolini: How the fascist dictator's descendant became an LGBTQ+ advocate", Euronews, 25 July 2023.
“There’s a fundamental equation: where there is occupation, there is resistance. Nobody can change this. This is basic, it’s natural; you cannot change the sun and make it rise from the west. This is the truth; it is natural. When you are under oppression, you resist.”
Leila Khaled (born 1944) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with +972 Magazine (17 May 2014)
“So to change inequality in our nation, we must change the organization of the workplace. Until you do that, you’re not serious. You won’t solve any problems by redistributing: Even if you have progressive income tax, the rich will always figure out a way to hide their fortune in overseas tax shelters. So the solution is to equitably distribute profits in the first place.”
Richard D. Wolff (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the beginning, certainly, most did not set out to change society. In that sense, it is an unlikely kind of conspiracy. But they found that their lives had become revolutions. Once a personal change began in earnest, they found themselves re-thinking everything, examining old assumptions, looking anew at their work and relationships, health, political power and “experts," goals and values.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can only have a new society, the visionaries have said, if you change the education of the younger generation. Yet the new society itself is the necessary force for change in education.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The business of the Aquarian Conspiracy is calm diagnosis of that illness—to make it clear that synthesis is needed—paradigm change rather than pendulum change.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Buying, selling, owning, saving, sharing, keeping, investing, giving—these are outward expressions of inward needs. When those needs change, as in personal transformation, economic patterns change.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the mode of production would merely change the mode of exploitation.”
Alfredo M. Bonanno (1937–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question that arises in the mind of the ordinary man when a change in the arrangements of the world is suggested to him is not what will be the effect of the change on the universe, but what will be its effect on him—on that remarkable atom of the universe so zealously partitioned off from the rest by his own skin.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We want Palauans to come back and stay in their own home. We will lose our country (if Palauans keep migrating out of the country). It will affect and change everything in Palau. No more Palauans means there is no culture in Palau. This country will be taken over. Before it is too late, they (government) must make some change.”
Sandra Pierantozzi (born 1953) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sandra Pierantozzi (2016) cited in: "Sandra Pierantozzi serious on migration" in Island Times.
“Change the subject...actually give me a cigarette and then change the subject.”
Michael Lieber (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Literature can help bring about change of hearts and minds and then put pressure for political, legislative change. (2007)”
Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realize writing can help change the world. I'm aware of the power of language which isn't meaningless words.... Sound is an extension of all, and sound is spirit, motion...Everything, anything that anybody says, it does go out and makes change in the world.”
“Hunger is a defining issue for our world and climate change is worsening the problem. We must work to change this dynamic.”
Lupita Nyong'o (born 1983) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lupita Ngong'o interview" Michael Kors (October 25, 2019)
“I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes.”
Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)
“[A]n order of magnitude quantitative change in technology can make a qualitative change in the lifestyle we enjoy.”
Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Information Revolution – Will it Improve the Quality of Life?" (speech before the Sixth Australian Computer Society Conference, May 21, 1974)
“Mr. de Valera has stated that there would be a big change in this country before the war is over. The sooner that change comes, the better, and when it comes it would be for the better of the workers.”
Timothy Quill (1901–1960) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Irish Independent (1940)
“Quantitative change eventually gives way to qualitative change.”
“It is hopefully not too controversial to note that unsustainable things end. There are two possibilities from here – we dramatically change direction or we end up where we are headed. Either way, we are on the cusp of radical change.”
Shaun Chamberlin first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Humanity – not just a virus with shoes", Dark Optimism (2019)
“Whatever you do will change the world. If you take the most default option, you follow the most mainstream, down the line, ‘just keep your head down and get on with what they’re telling you to do’, approach, then that’s the world that you’re helping to create. There is no way that you can not change the world.”
Shaun Chamberlin first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kosmos interview on grief, Dark Optimism, aliveness and activism (2014)
“There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.”
Yemi Osinbajo (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if my place of work or the nature of my titles change, what I show won’t change and I don’t want it to. I’m a game fan at heart; I tell dirty jokes and make irresponsible comments (laughs), but I’ll work my hardest to make games.”
Kenichiro Takaki (born 1976) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kenichiro Takaki opens up about why he left Marvelous and more", NintendoEverything.com (27 March 2019).
“People keep telling me this, "you’ve got to upgrade your operating system". Then they say, "Well, that’s because of security things." I don’t really have much confidence in them. If they said we have to change it once every 20 years, I could believe that it was reliable, but telling me that I have to change it once every six weeks is crazy.”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's enormously interesting, the petabyte change because what's gonna happen is all human knowledge, every book that ever been written will fit into 138 terabytes of memory. That will mean the petabyte of memory can store all human knowledge and we can give it to every person on the planet. If we do that it's totally going to change society.”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Change is a difficult, often violent process, both for individuals and for whole species. The more rapidly change, the uglier the conflict.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've changed my technique a few times in my career. [...] Sometimes you just change to challenge yourself. But also over the six years of Preacher, [my] style [changed] a bit. It's unusual to have a run that's so long that you can actually notice how the characters change. If I'd only done it for a year it wouldn't have changed that much. The characters just evolved naturally.”
Steve Dillon (1962–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despite China's visibly warm welcome to Park, there was no epoch-making agreement between Park and Xi, just as there was no fundamental change in China's North Korea policy. She attended the mainly to show the change in her government's diplomatic approach, especially to expand [South] Korea's own diplomatic space by resisting US pressure to turn down the Chinese invitation.”
Hyung-A Kim first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Park Geun-hye's attendance to the . As quoted in Park Geun-hye's diplomatic dance with Xi Jinping has heads spinning in Asia (September 10, 2015) by Kelsey Munro,
“In this society, chauvinism is mistaken for chivalry. It's tough to change that. This film will trigger change in the right direction.”
Ayushmann Khurrana (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source