Quotes About Change

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.