change

"Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves."

"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian."

"I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly."

"The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class."

"He is demanding of his colleagues, but he is demanding of himself because he wants to change things for the better."

"When climate change is running faster than we are, everything must be done to defeat climate change."

"We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences. We kill or elate with words bec…"

"If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring,…"

"From the works now extant of Aristotle, and from the system of Pythagoras... we might certainly infer that these philosophers considered the agents of change now operating in Nature, as capable of bri…"

"The final product is a man-plant-animal symbiote that is admirably adapted for survival on this disaster world. No emotions to cause complications or desires that might interfere with pure survival. C…"

"Young trees need stakes to support them, but the stakes must be removed once the trees begin to grow, precisely so not to hinder their growth."

"57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"Bourgays are the doom of queer revolution."

"Homosexuality is not “normal.” On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm; therein resides its eternally revolutionary character. Note I do not call it a challenge to the idea of a norm. Queer the…"

"As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped…"

"In a more drastic sense we can speak of political revolution only when it causes a change in the political system, that is, when no possible configuration within the system can coincide with it. In th…"

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

"The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism."

"Ultimately, the struggle of the fundamentalists is against two enemies, secularism and modernism. The war against secularism is conscious and explicit, and there is by now a whole literature denouncin…"

"...“progress”, in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether , and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not…"