„You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
-Nurse Greta

You can't change human nature without first changing the law.'
-Nurse Yvonne“

„We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.“

—  Robert Anton Wilson American author and polymath 1932 - 2007

„If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.“

—  T. Harv Eker American writer 1954

Zdroj: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

„If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.“

—  Mary Engelbreit American illustrator 1952

„If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.“

—  Amy Tan American novelist 1952

„Don't ask the world to change — you change first.“

—  Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987

"The Death of Me", p. 151
Awareness (1992)
Zdroj: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Kontext: Don't ask the world to change — you change first. Then you'll get a good enough look at the world so that you'll be able to change whatever you think ought to be changed. Take the obstruction out of your own eye. If you don't you have lost the right to change anyone or anything. Till you are aware of yourself, you have no right to interfere with anyone else or with the world.

„Nothing is going to change unless you first change“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73

„Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him."“

—  Nicholas Sparks, kniha Message in a Bottle

"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Zdroj: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

„The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.“

—  Ezra Taft Benson President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1899 - 1994

„Do not think for one second that what you do is not important. Do not believe one second that individual can't change the course of human events, because individual can and does and will change the course of human events.“

—  Pamela Geller blogger, author, political activist, and commentator 1958

"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h28m21s, Sugar Land, Texas

„What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.“

—  Maya Angelou, kniha Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Zdroj: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

„Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change“

—  Jordan Sonnenblick American writer 1969

Zdroj: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

„All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.“

—  Flannery O’Connor American novelist, short story writer 1925 - 1964

Zdroj: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

„You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61

„We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.“

—  Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish statesman 1729 - 1797

Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
1790s

„Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.“

—  John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820 - 1894

1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

„Conservatives believe that human nature is what makes us imperfectible. Liberals believe that human nature can be changed and perfected.“

—  Mike Rosen American political pundit 1944

Rocky Mountain News column, 2000

„First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2011, Remarks at a Dedication Ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial (October 2011)

„The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.“

—  Oscar Wilde, kniha The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.