Quotes About Change

En la sociedad, nada puede declararse exento de la norma universal de la "desechabilidad" y nada puede permitirse perdurar más de lo debido.

Lo que se enfatiza en todo momento es el olvidar, el borrar, el dejar y el reemplazar.

What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate the intuition of a radical change in the arrangement of human cohabitation and in social conditions under which life-politics is nowadays conducted, is the fact that the long effort to accelerate the speed of movement has presently reached its 'natural limit' .

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.

Cada encuentro supone tanto una conclusión como un nuevo inicio: la interacción no tiene un "final natural

La función de la cultura no consiste en satisfacer necesidades existentes sino en crear necesidades nuevas, mientras

Ningún marino de hoy perdería el tiempo reparando la parte que ya no sirve para navegar, sino que más bien la reemplazaría con una pieza de repuesto.

Nevertheless, 'stick lightly' they must, as 'possessions, situations and people' will keep slipping away and vanishing at a breathtaking speed whatever they do; whether they try to slow them down or not is neither here nor there. 'Let them go' they must (though, unlike Bill Gates, with hardly any pleasure), but whether they do it graciously or with a lot of wailing and teethgnashing is beside the point.

vivimos en una época de re-ciclaje en la que nada parece morir del todo, de la misma forma que nada, ni siquiera la vida eterna, parece destinado a durar para siempre.

What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna.

Progress is a law—and theft too has its creation.

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

It is always the Age of Iron, and the Golden Age is always behind us, giving off a luster that illuminates the terminal shabbiness of our present condition.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

What destruction have I been blessed by?

The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away

Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.

Flux has heightened us into knots of staid tension.

Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving...' --Alema Rar

Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

The stunning beauty of the truth lies beyond the veil of habits.

between rubble and sovereign sun all water consumed all wailing subdued since dawn time this land remains the same: the open wound of Africa