Hank Williams III Quotes

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

The old order of the country gave way to the new order of the city. Rural morality was replaced by urban morality, rural voices by urban voices, rural votes by urban votes.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

With every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem.

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

America is a conservative country with a small “c” - they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

Note the startling regularity through history with which society martyrs the rebel in one generation and worships him in the next.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

The End of White Christian America

There’s a carrying capacity in any society for how much change it can incorporate at any one time.

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.