Stockwell Day Quotes

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

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

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

I'm trying to change the world.

Reform is China's second revolution.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

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.

An idea consisting of a social crime in one age becomes the very religion of humanity in the next

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

The period of radical reform is finished.

… 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.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.