#change

In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be killed - on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of solutions. The most recent mass application of violence liberated Kuwait. The most recent mass application of violence on a global scale alone cleansed the world of the Third Reich. Nonviolence and passive resistance did less than nothing to stop Hitler and his henchmen. The Atlantic slave trade wasn't stopped by 'dialogue' or 'passive resistance' or conferences, but by the opened gunports of the Royal Navy; Dachau and Chang-I weren't liberated with pamphlets. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#violence #war #change

In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after. ↗

— Shamash Alidina

#mindfulness #change

You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future. ↗

— Shamarion Whitaker

#self-improvement-book #change

Someone who has a poverty consciousness, which is a mental disease, can change their habitual way of thinking if they are determined to do so and will take action. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #change

Don't you ever get a tattoo, understand? All is says is that you ain't open to change. ↗

— Nami Mun

#change

Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. If you're attached to your ways then detach, so you can change. Use this detachment in your writing, relationships, and understanding of life. Our future as individuals, as nations, and as mankind can only go one way. It's our choice whether we want the painful path or the peaceful path. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#counteracting-pain #hope #living-in-creativity #love #peace

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn. ↗

— Barbara Hall

#change

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before, ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#four-lectures #gertrude-stein #history #narration #change

Science is a hammer for change. ↗

— J.J. Brown

#change

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#change #city-planning #growth #change