Change Quotes

"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."

"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."

"The danger of improvement is constantly losing touch with the present."

"We live in an age of great improvement and innovation."

"Reform must come from within, not be imposed from without."

"Quantity becomes quality when change reaches a certain point."

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded."

"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."

"There is no such thing as any sort of durable and stable justice."

"Habit is the product of repetition; repetition is the mother of habit."

"Quantity is transformed into quality."

"All that is solid melts into air."

"The philosophers have merely interpreted the world; the task is to transform it."

"History shows that all great changes are preceded by chaos."

"Revolution is the locomotive of history."

"The modern world does not free us from constraint; it merely makes constraint invisible by making it productive."

"The genealogist seeks not origins but the contingent and arbitrary processes through which things became what they are."

"To study the past genealogically is not to complete it but to open the present to alternative possibilities."

"A man who has never changed his mind has never had a complete thought."

"All the world is becoming Americanized, but I do not believe that this is a very bad thing."

"We live in an age of transition, and must expect to be exposed to greater trials."

"We behold around us a world in convulsion."

"In a progressive country change is constant."

"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."

"Progress is not an accident, but a necessity."

"Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."