Quotes About Change

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat anymore, I now eat rice cutlets.

Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.

All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course toward Socialism.

In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

There are places I remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn I was the Walrus, but now I'm John And so dear friends, you'll just have to carry on The dream is over.

You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I believe this intense adaptability gave me the freedom to be happy anywhere.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.