Ludwig von Mises Quotes

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

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.

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

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

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.

Social change comes through people.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

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

Reform starts here.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Governments never lead; they follow progress

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.

The world which we now live in must be transformed, yet there is a dearth of ideas about how it is to be done.

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

We are going to change Brazil!