Change Quotes

"Nothing is permanent except change itself."

"The advance of industry upon which the bourgeoisie rides is inevitable."

"Nothing endures but change; all systems ultimately give way to contradiction."

"Nature does not move by leaps; neither does human social development."

"The transformation of society begins with a change in consciousness."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned."

"Tradition is the dead weight of the past dragging upon the present."

"Every crisis contains within it the seeds of transformation."

"Change requires both understanding and will to act."

"The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you've been living."

"Change begins when individuals refuse to accept injustice."

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

"A new historical epoch cannot occur without a corresponding appearance of historically novel intellectual and moral conceptions."

"The problem is to create a new culture, not to conserve the old."

"No social transformation is possible without a corresponding transformation in consciousness."

"A true revolution cannot be made; it can only evolve naturally."

"Tradition is the graveyard of human potential."

"System change requires the transformation of human consciousness."

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same."

"The most important thing is the transformation of the subject."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned."

"One cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs."

"Change is not a moral imperative but a historical necessity."

"The habit of thinking under established forms is so strong in men, that they cannot break loose from them."

"The point is not to interpret the world, but to change it."

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the real task is to change it."

"In revolutionary times, even the most conservative can be swept into radical change."

"The goal is not merely to interpret reality but to transform it fundamentally."

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

"Passive revolution occurs when the ruling class adapts itself to new conditions without changing its fundamental nature."