The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown Can never come over again. Kingsley, Charles
The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because […]
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. Irving, Washington
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Hugo, Victor
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the leadin the introduction of a new order to things. Machiavelli, Niccolo
They change, and we, who pass like foam,< Masefield, John
Things do not change, we do. Thoreau, Henry David
They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true. Frost, Robert
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
To speak of “limits to growth” under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be “persuaded” to […]
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. Bryson, Lyman Lloyd
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. Rowan, Carl T.