Quotes About Change

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

History is the seed bed of the future.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

History's a resource.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

History is not hatred.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.