Seneca the Younger Quotes

I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

The world was floods above and fire below

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.