Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Quotes

Economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's will.

Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

We don’t need to wait three generations for change.

No social order is ever destroyed before all the productive forces for which it is sufficient have been developed, and new superior relations of production never replace older ones before the material conditions for their existence have matured within the framework of the old society.

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and the whole humanity is led stray by the reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress. The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march.

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.

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control.

Man is as the Lord made him. But we can change our institutions.

Don't be content with things as they are.

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights.

Progress includes Order, but Order does not include Progress.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

The modern civilized State has been developed by the antagonism between individual and social interests, which has transformed primitive Society into Civilization.

The secret of progress, the perpetual satisfying of wants followed by the springing up of new wants, is the secret of individual unrest and disappointment.