Floyd Abrams Quotes

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

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

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

Progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.

Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

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

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Reform is China's second revolution.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

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

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

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

It is critically important that we never go back to what is called “the bad old days.”

Progress includes Order, but Order does not include Progress.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight...

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

In the fifteen years since Earl Warren became Chief Justice, the Court has brought about more social change than most Congresses and most presidents.

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