Change Quotes

"Becoming is always becoming-other."

"The price of progress is trouble."

"Becoming requires that we abandon the illusion of being."

"Change is the only permanent feature of existence."

"The event is what resists our anticipation and calculation."

"The event is what breaks the chain of causality and expectation."

"Difference and repetition are not opposed; they are woven together in every act of becoming."

"To become animal is not to act like an animal but to enter into a becoming-animal."

"The new always emerges from the disruption of established patterns."

"Modernity brings both enlightenment and new forms of constraint."

"The legacy of modernity includes both unprecedented freedoms and unprecedented constraints."

"Modernization is not a single process but involves competing rationalizations."

"What is new is the silence about what is new."

"Progress is not continuous; it is discontinuous and contradictory."

"Natality is the human condition that corresponds to the political realm."

"The chief characteristic of bureaucracy is its tremendous power to resist change."

"We are defined by our capacity to begin anew."

"Every person has an infinite capacity for growth and transformation."

"Real change requires working simultaneously at multiple levels of organization."

"Social change begins when people learn to question the obvious."

"We are haunted by what we have not yet become."

"Change requires first recognizing that change is being prevented at every turn."

"Becoming is always in the middle; you can only think of it as a process of in-between."

"The most profound movements are often invisible."

"Modern societies require continuous negotiation between tradition and innovation to maintain legitimacy."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"The worst enemy of progress is the enemy within."

"The possibility of changing society requires first changing how we think about it."

"We cannot undo what has been done, but we can change what will be."

"Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning."