Quotes About Change

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The midwife of history is violence.

Stand up and walk out of your history

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history