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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.
Emma Goldman1869–1940“Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap”, a lecture (c. 1912), published in Red Emma Speaks, Part 1 (1972) edited by Alix Kates Shulman
- Change
No real social change has ever come about without a revolution.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For”
- Change
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
- Luck
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Goreborn 1948
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we’re proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change.
Al Goreborn 1948Speech at the Democratic National Convention (28 August 1996).
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.
TGTemple Grandinborn 1947Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition).Westminster, MD, USA: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
MGMarquis de La GrangeOften credited to Saul Bellow
At certain points in history it may be fashionable to be different and rebellious, but if a lot of people are playing that role, there is nothing different or rebellious about it.
Robert Greeneborn 1959The Art of Seduction (2001)
Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down thy hair.
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), RapunzelIn context
To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,
The next I’ll have the young Queen’s child.
Ha! glad am I that no one knew
That Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), RumpelstiltskinIn context
There is no man under the sun so fortunate as I
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), Hans in LuckIn context
- Happiness
- Luck
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara1928–1967Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965)
- Change
- Politics
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I’m on the road with my shield on my arm.
Che Guevara1928–1967Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964
Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804