Fritz Sauckel Quotes

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.

The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

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.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

In ancient Greece, a crisis was a period of judgment. It’s healthy for a country to go through a crisis.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.

Those who voted for me voted for change. Together we can change Poland.

While the problems facing the country are huge, it is in times of great disruption that we can make the most important changes to our society and help to rebuild our fractured, broken politics.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.