Adjusting Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

— Abba Eban

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

— Ram Dass

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

— Jimmy Carter

History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise…

— John Stuart Mill

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than…

— Algernon Sidney

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

— Meena Harris

Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a…

— William Godwin

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

— Kenneth Frazier

Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.

— Frans van Houten

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

— Chester A. Arthur

Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact…

— Emma Goldman

A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both…

— Betty Sue Flowers