Adversity Quote by John Dewey

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

— Wadada Leo Smith

Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and…

— Mao Zedong

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe…

— Max McKeown

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts…

— Brian Awehali

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of…

— Walt Whitman

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

— Elizabeth Lesser

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

— Robert Teeter

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

— George Soros

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is…

— Isaac Asimov

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.…

— Oscar Wilde