Madeleine Albright Quotes

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

I want to change a lot.

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

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Adapt or die.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Reform starts here.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

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

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Every new time will give its law.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

One has to shed one's old skin for a positive change.

Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.