Germaine de Staël Quotes

There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

The hard part is choosing to change what needs changing.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

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

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

If it’s change you need, relish the journey.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Change is the watchword of progression.