Quotes About Transformation

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

All revolutions devour their own children.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Revolutions never go backward.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.