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Essay · Political literature

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1 · 1787

★ 1.2

Film · Drama (film) · Epic (film) · Drama · Epic

It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. You don't want them changed.

The Last Temptation of Christ · 1988

★ 2.0

Essay · Philosophical literature

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding · 1690

★ 2.1

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince · 1513

★ 2.2

Novel · Post-colonial literature

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

The God of Small Things · 1997

★ 2.2

Song · Musical

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly; They told Marconi Wireless was a phony- It's the same old cry!

1937

★ 3.5

Future shock... The shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

1970

★ 3.5

Film · Biography (film) · Biography

I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy.

Moneyball · 2011

★ 3.5

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain.

1995

★ 3.5

Political literature

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

1872

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

We fear change.

Wayne's World · 1992

★ 3.7

Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

1643

★ 4.5

Speech · Political speech

It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1956

★ 6.2

Song · Protest music · Folk music

Come Senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall.

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1963

★ 6.4

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 8.1