Change Quotes

"The new can only emerge from the thoroughgoing negation of the old."

"Modernity's great challenge is learning to integrate our historical consciousness with meaningful engagement in the present."

"History teaches us that human beings are capable of transformation and that no present situation is permanently fixed."

"Becoming is not one or multiple, it is the myriad of forms between which flows the imperceptible."

"We are all becomings, endlessly creating ourselves."

"The process of becoming always involves a multiplicity."

"All becoming begins with a rupture."

"The event is what cannot be anticipated."

"We are constituted by repetition."

"The event ruptures the present."

"Progress is the measure of how much reification has progressed."

"Without negation, progress becomes mere expansion of the same dominating logic into new domains."

"The modernization of traditional societies brings benefits and losses that cannot be evaluated from a single perspective."

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of a new world."

"What is modern is that which is continually becoming something other than itself."

"What is new is always bad; what is old is always good."

"One must traverse the fantasy to move beyond it."

"Becoming is not one or multiple, it is the IN-BETWEEN, the border or line of flight or descent."

"We must think of becoming as a process of continuous variation without fixed identity."

"Change is not progress; it is a fundamental aspect of all existence."

"The event is that which cannot be programmed or anticipated."

"We are condemned to freedom, but this freedom is the condition of our becoming."

"The moment is always pregnant with possibility."

"We must continually reinvent our understanding of the world."

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes"

"The future is the infinite field of freedom"

"If something is going to change, let it come from within."

"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."

"The question is not changing people's consciousness but their activities, their practices."

"We must think about the world in such a way that change becomes possible."