change Quotes

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.