Conditions Quote by Gunnar Myrdal

Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into…

— James O'Shaughnessy

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

— Margaret Sanger

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

People create social conditions and people can change them.

— Osonye Tess Onwueme

People seek change not only when threats and opportunities appear, but when we get tired of the ways things are.

— Bettany Hughes

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives of millions…

— Simon Mainwaring

Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the…

— Andrew Solomon

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold…

— John Dewey

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated…

— Eric Hoffer

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

— Anthony Giddens