Quotes About Change

Fortune, until now kind to me, begins to wear a frowning face.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant, it develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant.

We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.

It is only the present she hates; as soon as the present becomes the past, she immediately begins loving it. (On her mother)

We loved once, and we loved badly. We loved again, and again we loved badly. We did it a third time, and we were no longer living in a world free of experience. We saw that love did not make us tender, wise, or compassionate. Under its influence we gave up neither our fears nor our angers. Within ourselves we remained unchanged. The development was an astonishment: not at all what had been expected. The atmosphere became charged with revelation, and it altered us permanently as a culture.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise.

Once upon a time, in the days before Social Security or insurance companies, there lived a miller and his daughter, Della, who were fairly well-off and reasonably happy until the day their mill burned down.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

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

We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

?ovek nikada ne može biti dovoljno radikalan.Odnosno, ?ovek mora biti radikalan koliko i sama stvarnost.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

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 towards Socialism.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.