John Morley Quotes

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Courts should ... follow, rather than lead, changes taking place elsewhere in society.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

Governments never lead; they follow progress

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

Margaret Thatcher effected profound change in the society and for that she became very unpopular.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

Man is as the Lord made him. But we can change our institutions.

Every era demands its own answers, and if one wants to do good, one must be prepared for them.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

I was the father of Canada's social revolution; you will create the country's economic revolution.

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

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

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

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

Do you believe that life today is the same as it was 10 centuries ago? This tremendous change was produced by the West. Who else produced it?