"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."

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"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."

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"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying."

Kevin Johnson, American Athlete

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"There are few things that will remain constant over the long run."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets."

John Green, American Author

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"We must become the change we want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there."

Charlie Rich, American Musician

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"As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room."

Lea DeLaria, American Comedian

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"Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure."

Knowledge

"As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies."

Science

"However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable."

Government

"After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed."

War

"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."

Time

"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."

Dictatorship

"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without."

History

"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants."

Government

"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible."

Nation

"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."

Politics