Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

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.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

The times they are a-changing.