Voltaire Quotes

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Time makes more converts than reason.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

Time is not kind to everything.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.