Quotes About Change

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Consciousness precedes Being, and not the other way around, as Marxists claim. For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better.

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

We know from a number of harsh experiences that neíther reform nor change is in itself a guarantee of anything. We know that ultimately it is all the same to us whether or not the system in which we live, in the light of a particular doctrine, appears changed or reformed. Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.

Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at the beginning of the Seventies. We are now living in a truly new and different situation. This is not because the government has become more tolerant; it simply had to get used to the new situation. It has had to yield to continuing pressure from below, which means pressure from all those apparently suicidal or exhibitionistic civic acts.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

I come from a set of storytellers and moralists…. The storytellers were forever changing the tale and the moralists tampering with it in order to put it in an edifying light.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

Even symbols decayed.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

Et sie minnuu tunne? Mie olen Rokan Antti. Pienmaanviljelijä Kannakselt. Nykyään Tikkakosken mannekiini.

Niin. Riihen taka ne aina häviää... Riihen taka meiltä hävitään kun lähdetään... Kapinaan taikka sotaan, ammuttavaksi taikka työhön... Mihinkä kullonkin mennään...

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.

A fickle thing is youth's

Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun.

The end of any path, is the beginning of the next path.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn't have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they'd stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier.