Quotes About Change

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

History is a great dust heap.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

When history calls, history calls.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.