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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Day of Affirmation Address, University of Cape Town (6 June 1966)
- History
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968The Opening to the Future Adress at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California (June 8, 1964)
- History
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969On the Road (1957), Part Two, Ch. 8
- Life & Death
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
- America
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can’t remake the world.
Ed Koch1924–2013Mayor (1984), p. 304
If we would bring about a sane and happy society we must begin with ourselves and not with another, not outside of ourselves, but with ourselves.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Second Public Talk at Ojai (21 May 1944), in Authentic Report of Ten Talks, Ojai, 1944 (1945), p. 7
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.
Anton LaVey1930–1997The Devil’s Notebook (1992)
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)
Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.
- Advice
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Sunday Times (London, 10 May 1992)
- Age
You say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Cooper Union Address (1860)
- Politics
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress (1862)
- Thinking
Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kéramos (1878), st. 3