Radical Change Quotes

• Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, America, Example

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  Walter Lippmann

  Change, Mean, Social

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Revolution, Radical

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• You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Patterns, Flow, Radical

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Advancement, Persecution, Palms

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• It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

  Marat Safin

  Years, Tennis, Pity

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• I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic and social system in order to make it a more egalitarian society and do away with homelessness and hunger and clean up the environment. But these people have no voice. They have no way of expressing themselves. Elections give them no way of expressing themselves.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Believe, Order

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 10, 2001.

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• The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Needs, World, Want

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• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  Lajos Kossuth

  World, Management, Diplomacy

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.1

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• people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Political, Despair

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• To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Views, World, Who We Are

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• Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

  Tennessee Williams

  People, Spirit, Drag

  Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.15, Yale University Press

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• There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Danger, Harm, There Is Hope

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• But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

  John Adams

  Religious, Real, War

  Letter to Hezekiah Niles, 13 Feb. 1818

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• I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

  Peter Maurin

  Want, Giver, Consumerism

  Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Littles, Shouting

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Mean, Political, Foundation

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

  Tom Freston

  Blessing, People, Suffering

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• Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Government, Republic, Good Things

  "Tanzania's New President Sworn in". news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 2005.

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• If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Might, Unorthodox

  Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”

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• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  War, Identity, Weapons

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

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• The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

  Eric Topol

  Long, Physicians, Lag

  "Is personalized medicine a myth?" by Amanda Enayati, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Political, Politics, Belief

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• To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.

  Ted Trainer

  Thinking, Needs, Behaviour

  Ted Trainer (2007). “Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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