Community Quote by John Stuart Mill

People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being…

— Gunnar Myrdal

“Politics are popularly supposed to govern the direction, and statesmen to be the guardian angels, of Civilization. It seems to me that they have…

— John Galsworthy

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no…

— Henry David Thoreau

We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must…

— Ivan Illich

“I am not too worried about the many changes in today's society, but I am rather overly concerned about societies refusal to change from…

— Lawrence Sankar

While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy…

— Pope Francis

“Do you think you can can change anything?' 'Of course not. We're waiting.' 'For what? 'Until the world changes on its own. That is…

— Ian Pears

“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do…

— Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually…

— Christopher Dawson

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life…

— Arthur Henderson