Quotes About Change

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself.

The revolution does not need historians.

This is so true [...]

Prior to January 22, 1905, the revolutionary party of Russia consisted of a small handful of people, and the reformists of those days, derisively called us a 'sect'. Within a few months, however, the picture completely changed. The hundreds of revolutionary Social Democrats 'suddenly' grew into thousands; the thousands became leaders of between two and three million proletarians.

what are we gonna do?

it is not enough for revolution that the exploited and oppressed masses should understand the impossibility of living in the old way and demand changes; it is essential for revolution that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. Only when the "lower classes" do not want the old way, and when the "upper classes" cannot carry on in the old way—only then can revolution triumph.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.

These last eight years…

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Did you suffer? Terribly. In fact, it tore my life apart. Up until that time I didn't really understand the transformation that was going on in Russia. When I had come home from the GDR, it was clear to me that something was happening. But during the days of the coup, all the ideals, all the goals that I had had when I went to work for the

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out of college, left my wife and began to write this book.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

O what fine times, this age of iron!

Who has not the spirit of his age,Of his age has all the unhappiness.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.