#change

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#racism #social-change #change

Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to change to the contrary. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#sovereignty #change

Lord, I can’t live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air. ↗

— Lorna Seilstad

#change

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#change #guts #humankind #reading #writing

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#change

It's okay, we can go back from this." It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#fall-for-anything #kiss #milo #change

With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself. ↗

— Toba Beta

#grumble #useless #change

what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry... ↗

— Jay Salter

#hiking #nature #refuge #utah #change

عندما تخطئ السماوات يقوم الشباب بتصحيح ذلك. وقد جاءت الفرصة فينبغي ألا تضيع!! ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#change #youth #change