Quotes About Change

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Im sick of making bloody history.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.