“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”

–Dean Jackson

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

–Buckminster Fuller [attributed]

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

–George Bernard Shaw

“I grew up in an environment where I thought Muslims and Arabs were the ones who kill, but through education I discovered this wasn’t the truth – and then I was able to forgive. You can’t forgive if you don’t know the truth, which is why education is so important… If young folks know the truth, change will come.”

– Emmanuel Jal

“The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.”

– Paulo Coelho [Often misquoted, see note]

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

“ऐसा पल आता है, मगर इतिहास में ऐसा पल बहुत कम आता है, जब हम पुराने से बाहर निकल कर नये युग में कदम रखते हैं, जब एक युग समाप्त हो जाता है, तब एक देश की लम्बे समय से दबी हुई आत्मा मुक्त होती है.”

– Jawaharlal Nehru

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

– Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice