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| The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion. (Donald Allen Wollheim) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. (Harold Wilson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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 limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. (Murray Bookchin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Discovery consists in seeing whateveryone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. (Albert von Nagyrapolt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Things do not change, we do. (Henry David Thoreau) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. (H. P. Blavatsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. (H. P. Blavatsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. (Southern California Oracle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change are thus complementary rather than antagonistic. Together they make it possible continually to test the limits of what can be done. Liberals never know whether the door is unlocked because they are afraid to try it. Radicals, on the other hand, miss many opportunities for small advances because they are unwilling to settle for so little. (Phillip Slater) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. (Percy Bysshe Shelley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (George Bernard Shaw) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. (Authur Schopenhauer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. (Sallust) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. (Bertrand Russell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Carl T. Rowan) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo) (Roman Congregation) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. (Bernard Berenson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. (Marcel Proust) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty. (Dr. Robert W. Prehoda) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. (Richard Postgate) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Keep what you have; the known evil is best. (Titus Maccius Plautus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Max Planck) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ducking for apples; change one letter and it's the story of my life. (Dorothy Parker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. (Ogden Nash) | [▲] | [▼] |