Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

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

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

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

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

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

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.

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

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

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

Criticism is the spur of reform; and Burke's admonition that a healthy society must reform in order to conserve has not lost its force.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

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

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion..

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.