Quotes about Change

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...

I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

If I were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism, or anarchistic quietistic pessimism or pessimistic quietistic anarchism: anarchism because experience tells me that what is wrong with politics is power itself; quietism because I have my doubts about the will to set about changing the world, a will infected with the drive to power; and pessimism because I am sceptical that, in a fundamental way, things can be changed.