Quotes About Change

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

H. Beam Piper

People have to learn to live with newly-discovered facts; if they don't, they die of them.

Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that. Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody?

If you want to make an omelet, you have to break eggs.

Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it—and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!

Puedes estar seguro, Alfredo, que si hay una cosa en nuestra época que se revela como un decreto de Dios, es que las masas han de levantarse y ocupar el puesto superior las clases inferiores.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The Shape of Things to Come.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

The New World Order.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails