Walt Whitman Quotes

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

I'm ready for a different America.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

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.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

I do not fear … rupture—rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want a rupture with conformity … with half heartedness … with conservatism … with immobility. This rupture I believe necessary. This rupture I have betrothed myself to. This rupture the French people have approved. This rupture I will perform.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

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

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

We are out to rebuild the world.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

We do not need more status quo.

Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

Some people don't like change. Some embrace it. But the way it's going - not just in football, but in society generally - it's more diverse. People want freshness.