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Great Change Quotes

On upheaval, growth and what moves nations.

These great change quotes weigh the internet's power to enable transformation against its real limits without political mobilization, tying progress to more than just technology.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in...

Quotes by Naomi Wolf

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on...

Quotes by Maxine Waters

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Quotes by Josiah Strong

Courage Quotes

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Quotes by Joan Lingard

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Quotes by Emma Goldman

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim...

Quotes by Dennis C. Blair

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times...

Quotes by David Brainerd

It can be frustrating that, despite widespread support for common sense gun safety measures, Congress is moving at a snail's pace. But remember that great change takes time.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

Growth Quotes

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

Quotes by Alexandra Patsavas

Frequently Asked Questions

What different scales of 'great change' do these quotes cover?
They range from large historical shifts, like Europe's rigid social ranks needing a social earthquake to move, down to personal change, like the upheaval of adolescence.
Why do people search for quotes about great change?
People look for language that captures both the excitement and the difficulty of transformation, whether they're discussing politics, society, or their own personal growth.
Is there a quote skeptical of technology's power to create change?
Yes, one argues that the internet's power for great change has real limits without accompanying real-time political mobilization, pushing back on purely tech-driven optimism.
Does any quote connect great change to a nation's history with race?
One reflects on how a nation has struggled for years with how it treats poor people and people of color, noting that apparent 'great change' often repeats in cycles rather than resolving.
What related quote themes are linked here?
This page links to growth quotes and progress quotes for more on transformation and moving forward.

Others look at change on a slower, generational scale, from Europe's historically fossilized social ranks to the ordinary upheaval of being a teenager navigating growth and possibility.