Iain Sinclair Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Reform that you may preserve.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

I love to watch times change!

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Principles that have served their day expire, and new principles are born.

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

The Past, The Present, For the Future

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.