Kofi Annan Quotes

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Progress does not occur without change.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

I love to watch times change!

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

I may not understand it or accept it, but the world is changing.

Criticism is the spur of reform; and Burke's admonition that a healthy society must reform in order to conserve has not lost its force.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.