Everybody's Political What's What? (ebook, must be borrowed) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24979564M/Everybody's_political_what's_what (1944), Chapter XXXVII: Creed and Conduct, p. 330 <br class="br">1940s and later <br class="br">Variant: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. <br class="br">Context: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Creeds, articles, and institutes of religious faith ossify our brains and make change impossible. As such they are nuisances, and in practice have to be mostly ignored.
“If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.”
David Davis (1948) British Conservative Party politician and former businessman
David Davis MP speech "Europe: It's Time To Decide" http://www.daviddavismp.com/david-davis-mp-delivers-speech-on-the-opportunities-for-a-referendum-on-europe/ ( 19 November 2012 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2012/11/invitation-to-david-davis-lecture-on-europe.html) <br class="br">On democracy and referendums
“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Variant: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Source: Angels & Demons
Henri Bergson book An Introduction to Metaphysics
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.
“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) French painter
Les artistes qui cherchent la perfection en tout sont ceux qui ne peuvent l'atteindre en aucune partie.
Quote, 4 March 1858, from Journal de Eugène Delacroix, book 3
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
“You cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change!”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83
