Rafael Sabatini Quotes

No conventions and covenants can remake human nature in a day.

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

Man is as the Lord made him. But we can change our institutions.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change themselves

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means....

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.

All great reforms go together.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Real freedom will require many changes in the nation’s political and social philosophies and institutions.