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Monday 4th of May 2026

Activism Protest galvanizes public sentiment, and when public sentiment is galvanized to a certain extent, then that turns into public pressure, and then when public pressure is applied to a certain extent, then we get policy change. That is how protest works.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2024 Kwiple.com
American Dream Slowing down change © 2018 Kwiple.com
The arts When art is made new, we are made new with it. John Russell, The Meaning of Modern Art,  Vol. 1 © 2023 Kwiple.com
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
Conservatives say It could always be worse © 2018 Kwiple.com
Conservatives say It's always been that way © 2018 Kwiple.com
The Constitution of the United States According to the U.S. Senate, there have been 11,848 attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution. But only twenty-seven of them have been succcesful. America's Constitution has been amended only twelve times since Reconstruction, most recently in 1992 —  more than three decades ago. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the Minority   [27/11,848 = 0.002279 percent success rate  — a snowball's chance in Hell of amending it] © 2023 Kwiple.com
The Constitution of the United States From the census of 2000 it is easy to calculate that an amendment could be blocked by thirty-four senators from the seventeen smallest states with a total population of 20,495,875, or 7.28 percent of the population of the United States. If miraculously the amendment were to pass the Senate it could then be blocked by thirteen state legislatures in the smallest states with a total population of 10,904,865, or 3.87 percent of the population of the United States. Robert A. Dahl © 2018 Kwiple.com
The Constitution of the United States It would be easier to convert America into a French-speaking country than amend its constitution. Edward Luce, Financial Times, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Death threats A society in which critics fear death is a society with fewer critics, and hence with fewer chances for change.  Bill McKibben, New York Times, October 21, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Elites If Rome’s oligarchs could have travelled to the future, they might have learned a trick or two from the US Ivy League. It is hard to think of a better system of elite perpetuation than that practiced by America's top universities. … Of the 31mn Americans aged between 18 and 24, just 68,000 are Ivy League schools  undergraduates — about a fifth of a per cent. Of these, a varying ratio are non-white beneficiaries of affirmative action. Many of those are from privileged black or His[anic backgrounds, as opposed to Chicago's South Side or the wastelands of Detroit. This is the basis on which the Ivy League lays claim to being a deliverer of social change. Edward Luce, Financial Times, July 5, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Evangelicals say A new and better age will not be inaugurated until the Second Coming of Christ, who is the only one cabpable of cleaning up the mess. No amount of human effort can hasten that day, or ultimately save a dommed world. Michael Gerson © 2021 Kwiple.com
Ideas Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith © 2019 Kwiple.com
Institutions Is it better to be outside the organisation, without any power to change, or to try to reform it from within? But this is what I want you to remember: sometimes institutions are better at reforming the people they hire, than the people they hire are at reforming them. This was the case at the CIA, this was the case at NSA, at Google, at Facebook. Edward Snowden © 2019 Kwiple.com
Moderate Republicans say Deeply cutting spending on healthcare after four years instead of three is change I believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Plans I really did have a lot of plans and that seemed right to me. If you decided to run for president and wanted to get a ton of things done, wouldn't you need a lot of plans? And they couldn't be wing-and-a-prayer plans. They had to be serious plans. Detailed plans. Plans with enough information that anyone could see the costs, the trade-offs, and the values that they embodied. Elizabeth Warren, Persist, on her run in the 2020 presidential primaries © 2019 Kwiple.com
Politics You want results and you get consequences. Poltical truism © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Republican moderates are up against the structural vagaries of US politics.  The system's counter-majoritarian features allow the party to remain competitive and powerful without appealing far outside its base. … Wyoming’s 600,000 people cancel out California's 40m in the Senate. Nothing here is improper. The constitution was never meant to privilege raw tonnage of votes. But it does mean Republicans do not face the same incentive — moderate or perish — that  keeps parties honest in some other democracies. To get anywhere, reform-minded Republicans must petition their colleagues' consciences, not their interests. Even to write that sentence is to sigh at the hopelessness of the errand. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Jan. 12, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Abdicating global leadership in a fit of petulance is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing any citizen to demand a hearing to challenge instructional materials about evolution or global warming is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing employers to steal wages from tipped workers is change we believe in  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing – even encouraging – lenders to charge Blacks and Latinos higher interest rates for car loans is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing fugitives to buy guns – except those who crossed state lines specifically to avoid being captured – is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing insurance companies to charge higher fees to people with trauma from sexual assault is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing ISPs to sell users' browsing history is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing those adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Appointing people seeking to demoralize, disable and dismantle a government department to be its leader is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Arming police with military gear is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Banning transgender people from serving in the miiitary in any capacity is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Blocking women on Medicaid from using their insurance at Planned Parenthood is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Buzz cutting where trimming would do is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Castrating the State Department is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Criminalizing political speech is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cutting funding for national parks is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Currying favor with large corporations by allowing ISPs to slow down people's internet service is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination in education is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws requiring schools to reduce/address sexual harassment and violence is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cutting funding for rental assistance is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cutting funding for statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau is change we believe in  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding Planned Parenthood is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding programs opposing racism and extremism is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding programs providing legal assistance to women trying to escape domestic violence is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Denying food stamps to anyone capable of doing any kind of work, regardless of whether it's available, what it pays, or what it costs them or their families is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Discontinuing the use of the Department of Justice's authority to investigate or reform local police, however egregious their behavior, is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Discouraging competent people from joining government is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Elevating hard power over soft power is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Eliminating funding for the Childen's Health Insurance Program is change we believe in. After all, why should we pay for their kids' healthcare? © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Eliminating rules aimed at reducing exposure to the carcinogen beryllium is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Encuraging sycophancy is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Enlarging Fortress America at the expense of the non-rich is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Forcing individual complainants to ferret out proof of institutional bias by preventing government from investigating charges of it is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Fueling sectarian fires is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Giving away or selling public lands is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gutting support for the disabled to make up for tax cuts for the rich is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Imposing the “global gag rule” that prohibits any USAid funding going to NGOs that fail to certify they will not use funds from any source whatsoever to perform or even mention abortions anywhere in the world, is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Increasing global warming by increasing emissions from coal-fired power plants is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Increasing pollution and waste in national parks by overturning the ban on selling plastic water bottles there is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Instructing federal prosecutors to seek the highest possible penalty in all  cases is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Investigating anti-Trump protesters and throwing the book at them is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting compromised individuals who are therefore susceptible to blackmail serve the President after they're known to be compromised is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Letting hunters kill hibernating bears is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting insurance companies sell health plans that don't cover “essential health benefits” is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting internet service providers (ISPs) sell customer browsing histories to advertisers is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting mining companies dump waste into streams again is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting people carry firearms on school property is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting Republican presidents use a presidential pardon to block the enforcement of a court order is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting the rich do whatever they want to is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Limiting public participation in managing public lands in order to enhance the influence of oil and gas companies is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Lowering the age at which people can carry concealed weapons is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Making infrastructure the road to quick profits by private investors is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Passing laws by rubber-stamping bills written for us by corporate lobbyists is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preaching economic nationalism with no economic plan other than to make big corporations and the rich even richer relative to the rest is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Pressuring intelligence analysts to provide evidence for our policies is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing adoption of the “fiduciary rule” that requires financial advisers to put their clients' interests before their own is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing government agencies from discharging oversight responsibilities is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing investigation or disclosure of exemptions from ethics rules granted to lobbyists and administration officials is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing public access to the White House visitors log to prevent anyone learning who's whispering in Trump's ears is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  The problem with guns is noise pollution. Making silencers cheap and easy to get is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Putting foxes in charge of guarding hen houses is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Reducing the salary threshold below which employers must pay overtime pay from $47,000 to $30,000 per year is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Repealing anti-corruption rules requiring energy companies to disclose payments to foreign governments is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrificing the environment and public health to increase corporate profits is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrificing your healthcare to give tax cuts to rich people is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sidestepping human rights issues is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Slashing funding for food stamps is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Snubbing commercial airlines is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Stopping studies of how pollutants created by mountaintop-removal mining cause birth defects, cancers and respiratory diseases is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Taking money away from public schools to fund private schools that discriminate against LGBTQ and other students is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Undermining multilateral institutions is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Undermining science and people's respect for it is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Voting on unwritten bills and bills for which there have been no hearings is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Writing bills in secret with no input from Democrats, no hearings, and no public examination of details is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I'm changing the things I cannot accept Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Segregation Courts, acting alone,  are unable to produce much desegregation but are effective at allowing resegregation to occur. Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's a mainstream Democrat. We got the change that he wanted, which was minimal. But he campaigned on a promise of change with a capital C, with the backing of large numbers of people — whom he then demobilized. Barack Obama portrayed by Eric Foner © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [T]he Green New Deal is already branded in the public's mind. Just as Ms Ocasio-Cortez is known by her initials – AOC – her bill is already known by its shorthand, GND. Few politicians, or bills, make that distinction. Think of John F Kennedy (JFK) or Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). The fact that a 29-year-old former bar- tender has gone from zero to ubiquitous abbreviation in a few months tells us something about America's appetite for change. She is now the most influential figure in US politics after Mr Trump. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez portrayed by Edward Luce, Financial Times, February 15, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union By allowing an ecosystem of gargantuan companies to develop, all but dominating the markets they serve, the American economy shut out disruption. And thus shut out change. Eduardo Porter, New York Times, February 6, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Software is eating the world. Marc Andreessen, Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Time Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine, Common Sense  © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Visions A big vision without a plan is just a fantasy. Exciting, but little more than a wisp that eventually blows away. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com