Change Quote by Anonymous

“From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which…

— Anne McClintock

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness…

— Michael Leunig

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting,…

— Peter Straub

“Humans have far longer memories than do animals and, thus revenge -the social settling of accounts with those who offended them- assumes a wholly…

— Azar Gat

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

— Wes Fesler

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

— Aesop

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

— Marshall Rose

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At…

— Walter Scott

“So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in…

— Emma Goldman

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful…

— Robert Grudin