Quotes About Change

nella maggior parte degli ambienti non c'era motivo che un raccoglitore passasse all'agricoltura se non costretto dalla pressione demografica o da qualche forma di coercizione.

Lo sviluppo dello stato in Mesopotamia non è stato per niente lineare. I piccoli stati della pianura alluvionale avevano, come i loro abitanti, un'aspettativa di vita molto limitata. Gli interregni erano più comuni dei «regni» ed erano normali lunghi periodi di caduta e frammentazione.

It took about one century for them [the negative consequences] to show up clearly. Many

Zygmunt Bauman, "Living Without an Alternative

every major successful revolution ended by creating a state more powerful than the one it overthrew, a state that in turn was able to extract more resources from and exercise more control over the very populations it was designed to serve.

If one were to imagine a pantheon or Hall of Fame of highmodernist figures, it would almost certainly include such names as Henri Comte de Saint-Simon, Le Corbusier, Walther Rathenau, Robert McNamara, Robert Moses, Jean Monnet, the Shah of Iran, David Lilienthal, Vladimir I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Julius N~erer

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.

There is no such thing as history undistorted. Decisive transformations of meaning occurred, and are occurring still.

Human tragedy, of its essence, consists in the denigration of what is in the name of what is to come

while they circle the drain. What else?

he's not very pro-American and it drives him mad that the British Empire's no more, that the U.S. is arbiter of the world's fate and making obvious mistakes

Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death—we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We're a generation of dinosaurs, we the few who survived. I suppose anyone who goes to war, any war, sees life with different eyes if they end up in one piece.

It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.

the Sh?gun was all powerful. Until he was overthrown.

Beauty Is not less For falling In the breeze.

What is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.

Life is like the moon— now dark, now full.   —Polish Proverb

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.   —Polish Proverb

She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

I'm too young to be that old.

When even the bartenders lose their romantic notions, it's time for a better world.

Still, the unfamiliar power of a new technology was seldom a match for a complacent human mind bent on ignoring it.