Quotes About Change

Mankind Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don't want to mend their own ways, but each other's.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

let us love winter, for it is the spring of genuis.

Bisogna essere eroici per abitare in tempi così diversi da quelli del proprio modello: ma Don Chisciotte, per l'appunto, era un eroe.

A su lado se sacude la espesura de la vejez

Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals.

But in one short span of time winds quickly shift direction,   veering back and forth.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another… Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.

Basta de realidades, queremos promesas

From the end spring new beginnings.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain