Quotes About Change

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

History is more or less bunk.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Our history is not our destiny.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.