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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Change  As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when eveything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air–however slight– lest we become unwilling victims of the darkness. William O. Douglas © 2018 Kwiple.com
Change As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disentrhall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (1862) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Change Change doesn't come from people having tea at the Ritz. It comes from people storming the Ritz. Jeremy Corbyn © 2019 Kwiple.com
Change Change is no more likely when a 55 percent majority wants it than when only a 25 percent minority does – in either case, a policy change occurs about one quarter of the time. Even more strikingly, when large majorities of Americans favor policy changes – when 70 or 80 percent want change – the get it less than half the time. … This finding means … that we [Americans] are subject to dangerous policy “drift.” Government policies do not adapt to new relaities. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Change “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises © 2019 Kwiple.com
Change How does a nation make painful reforms when it is still richer, safer and freer than most? … It is precisely because enough people have enough to lose that change is provocative. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 1, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Change I recognise that, in the Valley, people are obsessed with the pace of technological change. It's tough to get that part right… We rush sometimes, and can misfire for an average person. As humans, I don't know whether we want change that fast – I don't think we do. Sundar Pichai, Google CEO  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Change I sometimes marvel that liberalism manages to hold its own in this, or really any, country. Its insistence upon openness to change and new ways of thinking is, let’s admit it, a pretty large boulder to be carrying right out of the chute. Your average person is suspicious of change and perfectly content with the old ways of thinking.  As much as liberals might wish otherwise, the desire to conserve runs far deeper  in the human soul than the desire to reform. Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, June 2, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Change Lord give me chastity and continence. But not yet. Saint Augustine's prayer © 2023 Kwiple.com
Change The non-doing of stupid things is as precious as any crusade for positive change. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, August 14, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Change Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.  James Baldwin © 2017 Kwiple.com
Change Not the nation but its customs get old. Its institutions petrify into rigidity; there is social arterial sclerosis. Then some people not overburdened with elaborate and stiff habits take up and carry on the moving process of life. John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct © 2021 Kwiple.com
Change The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs © 2024 Kwiple.com
Change [T]he pleasure principle revived, and during the decade we now associate with Eisenhower conformism. Such is the unreliability of nostalgia. Such also, is the process of social change. That is, by the time it shows up in the laws of the land, all the hardest work was done a while ago. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, May 15, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Change [P]ublic opinion and policy do mostly tend to move together. Policy is more likely to change when majorities of citizens favor a change than when majorities oppose it. Average citizens fairly often get what they want. … This could be called “democracy by coincidence.” It occurs even though ordinary citizens have little or no influence on their own, becauss those citizens fairly often agree with the policies that are also favored (and won) by their affluent fellow citizens who do  have a lot of clout. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Change Since all social systems were created by men, it follows that men can change them. … Any process of social change, however, is connected with new definitions of reality. Peter L. Berger, An Invitation to Sociology © 2021 Kwiple.com
Change There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent upon defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them  indispensable to the preservation of society. Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities © 2023 Kwiple.com
Change Things go wrong really quickly now, don't they? I mean they spiral very, very quickly from the point where I can be in my house, in my job, driving my car, and lose my job, not pay my bills, get repossessed, and be out and living in a hostel … it's so easy, it's so easy.  A Yorkshireman quoted in Financial Times, January 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Change This life-and-death situation that we've now all been thrust into has opened up possibilities. Working people want real change, and that I think makes me more optimistic than ever that the change isn't going to be incremental, and that gives me incredible hope. Mary Kay Henry, International President of the Service Employees International Union, May 22, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
Change Thus we have two distinct conceptions of change, each involving active governmental intervention. One we can call mitigative or tactical change. It seeks to redress a situation or condition without significantly modifying power relations (e.g., a  “tax break for the middle class”). The other, paradigmatic or strategic change, institutes not only a new program but recasts basic power relationships: it reforms, empowers, sets a new direction (e.g., a single-payer health car system). Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated © 2017 Kwiple.com
Change The trick for individuals, and for larger entities, is to understand that malaise can be the worse fate. Crises often force change. Tolerable underperformance is, or can be, for keeps. … Cause and effect are hard to establish, but the record keeps throwing up these chronological proximities of crisis and profound innovation. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 1, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Change Voters trust the business of change to those who don't seem excessively keen on it. Janesh Ganesh, Financial Times, August 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com