Quotes About Change

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.