Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

All I want to do is change the world.

Reform is China's second revolution.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

… evolution over revolution.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion..

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

History is a relay of revolutions

I would like to see evolution in my country, not revolution. It is much better for us to work together with the government to transform Saudi Arabia for the future.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

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

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

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

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.