Dean Rusk Quotes

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

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

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

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

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

Change, like healing, takes time.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Change is the watchword of progression.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.