Joseph McCabe Quotes

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

I don't need success, I just need to be constantly evolving.