Quotes About Change

Modern souls do not even become corrupted; they become rusty.

Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.

Der Fortschrittler triumphiert immer und der Reaktionär hat immer recht. Recht haben heißt in der Politik nicht die Szene beherrschen, sondern vom ersten Akt an die Leichen des fünften vorhersagen.

It never again mattered to me where I lived after I saw the spacious, dilapidated homes pass away and the wide open, deserted fields of my infancy covered with industrial and human filth.

More repulsive than the future which progressives unintentionally prepare is the future they dream of.

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises.

A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.

Reactionaries are recruited from among the front-row spectators of a revolution.

What most likely is upon us is not a revolutionary terror, but a counter-revolutionary terror implemented by disgusted revolutionaries.

Today's conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy

The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.

Civilizations are mortal" is the greatest comfort for someone alive today.

Modern literature: this colossal reactionary enterprise.

The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.

Humanity will one day solemnly recall the events that initiated the dismantlement of industrial society.

When respect for tradition dies out, society, in its incessant desire to renew itself, consumes itself in a frenzy.

To be a revolutionary one must be a little daft; to be a conservative, a little cynical.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road "change." The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense. The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

Worauf steuert die Welt zu? Auf dieselbe Vergänglichkeit, aus der sie kommt.

Wenn ein Reaktionär von "unvermeidlicher Restauration" spricht, dürfen wir nicht vergessen, dass der Reaktionär Jahrtausenden rechnet.

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

EL mayor triunfo de la ciencia parece estar en la velocidad creciente con que el bobo puede trasladar su bobería de un sitio a otro sitio.