Cress Williams Quotes

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

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

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

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

Change will always be violent.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

The times they are a-changing.

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

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

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.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.