Quotes About Change

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until they're not. And they're gonna flip like Germany in the thirties. You're going to have a hypernationalist state, and once that happens you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

transmogrification

The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without

On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce federal bureaucracy—that is, to reduce it by creating more of it, a committee to end committees.

Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact of having been elected president would not change his unfiltered, apparently uncontrollable, utterly shoot-from-the-hip display of wounds, resentments, and ire.

The organization therefore needed a set of internal rationalizations that would allow it to trust a man who, while he knew little, was entirely confident of his own gut instincts and reflexive opinions, however frequently they might change.

Meanwhile, new ideas crept like a damp stain into the very fabric of Tang culture, casting a shadow across the world of the old aristocratic clans that had survived.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires to people's minds." —Samuel Adams Naumann

They cannot see that our sociological assumption is that such systems must not be allowed to exist, no matter the real or perceived benefits. They are continuing to attempt to fix what we consider unfixable and have abandoned.

Why does the world have to destroy anything that doesn't fit in? We still can't figure out that this is the most important reason to love something

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'huy? How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

The problem is not changing people's consciousnesses---or what's in their heads---but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

We need to cut off the King´s Head: in political theory that has still to be done.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.