Quotes about change
166 quotes from 131 people
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
Bill Clintonborn 1946President Clinton’s speech at the 200th anniversary of the University of North Carolina.One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (22 May 1925), published in Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up (1945)A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), [O] : Introduction, 0.7Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 4: The Masculinization of Wealth, p. 196It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can’t remake the world.
Ed Koch1924–2013Mayor (1984), p. 304“Old” and “new” are the perennial poles of all feeling and sense of orientation in the world.
Susan Sontag1933–2004Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Ian Millhisser (October 8, 2015): Justice Ginsburg’s Warning To A Dysfunctional Nation. In: ThinkPrgoress
William Howard Taft1857–1930Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), P. 61.
John Henry Newman1801–1890An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), Chapter 1, Section 1, p. 39
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Approaches to Politics (1970)
Anton LaVey1930–1997The Devil’s Notebook (1992)
Al Goreborn 1948Speech at the Democratic National Convention (28 August 1996).
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 14.