Bertha von Suttner Quotes

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Law cannot stand apart from the social changes around it.

Real change happens a step at a time.

[T]he great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment.

My fear is that in general terms the evolution of the political process proceeds at the same pace as the evolution of the species and I do not myself believe that that is quite fast enough

Governments never lead; they follow progress

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.