Nelson Mandela Quotes

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

I do not fear … rupture—rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want a rupture with conformity … with half heartedness … with conservatism … with immobility. This rupture I believe necessary. This rupture I have betrothed myself to. This rupture the French people have approved. This rupture I will perform.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

All I want to do is change the world.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

You can either have revolution or you can have revival.