Change Quotes

"Sustainable development is a contradiction in terms. You cannot sustain growth forever."

"The Great Turning is the shift from Growth Society to Life-Sustaining Civilization."

"The fossil fuel economy is a dead man walking."

"We are in the time of the seventh fire - the time of choosing."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same consciousness that created them."

"Disasters are also a chance to reimagine our world."

"Radical transformation is always resisted."

"The time for incremental change has passed."

"Systems change is possible and necessary."

"The old world is dying, and a new one is struggling to be born."

"Transformation requires both imagination and action."

"Change happens when people decide they are worth fighting for."

"Change is the only constant; resistance to it is resistance to life."

"Small things can be weathered, and absorbed, but to change the course of the world, to reshape the world, demands that you believe something in your heart."

"The idea of revolution is not a modern idea. It's an old idea."

"What if some of the things you used to write about are disappearing?"

"The most important thing is to change the trajectory we're on"

"We need a complete transformation of our energy systems"

"We need systems change, not individual change, though individual change supports systems change"

"The time for incrementalism has passed"

"We must divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy"

"Our differences need not divide us; they can enrich our understanding and strengthen our movements."

"Sustainability is not a luxury—it is a necessity for survival."

"We need to move from an economy of extraction to an economy of regeneration."

"The biggest revolution is the one that happens in our hearts and homes."

"The future is not predetermined. It will be shaped by the choices we make today."

"The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always carries a risk."

"Change is the only constant and sometimes these changes are painful, yet that is how we grow."

"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."

"Transformation cannot happen unless we are willing to move through the pain."