Aldo Moro Quotes

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.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

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

Adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people’s unrest—in other words, there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

I fear that some day or another we shall have in Europe a total upsetting of social order, which will drive all wise and experienced men to America.

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society.

A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans–mostly under 30–are determined to destroy our society

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

The agents that move politicks are the popular passions, and those are ever ... under the command of the disturbers of society.

The period of radical reform is finished.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

Social stability is ensured, not by the cessation of the demand for change – for the needy and the restless will never cease to cry for it – but by the fact that change in its progress must at last hurt some class of men who are strong enough to arrest it.

… 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.

They are as blind to some of the tendencies of the time as the French Noblese was before the French Revolution.