Quotes about Change

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

Every wall is a door.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.