„We may take advantage of this pause in the narrative to make certain statements. Orlando had become a woman — there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„The change in consciousness will not take place automatically, just as it doesn't take place automatically in the economy. The alterations are slow and are not harmonious; there are periods of acceleration, pauses and even retrogressions.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara
„Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.“
— Camille Paglia
„Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.“
— Stephen King
„God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this“
— Ram Dass
„What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.“
— Jane Austen