Quotes About Change

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it must be that it is.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...

Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come

He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.