John Hutton Quotes

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

An idea consisting of a social crime in one age becomes the very religion of humanity in the next

If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

Haiti has changed a lot.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Change is no threat to culture.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

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

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.