Jared Polis Quotes

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

While the association and its founders and its founders most sincerely appreciate the splendid elements and achievements of the old-time Indian culture and the methods by which early conditions were met, it realizes most keenly the inefficacy of these methods in meeting the conditions of modern times.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

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

Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.

The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

The Russian Communists faced a problem older than themselves, a problem that had pervaded their country throughout much of the nineteenth century: modernization. The consciousness of Russia's backwardness obsessed and united the elites.

Each century believes its fight to be weightier than that of all others preceding it.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

We have always a right to correct ancient errors and to establish what is more conformable to reason and convenience

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people. We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

History, we now know, is not merely, of even primarily, past politics, it is also past economics, past society, past religion, past civilization, in short—past everything.

It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system. -- With this in view I have taken as impulses, instincts, or needs certain driving forces in the human species as we know it at present, and argued for such social and economic changes as will give them new, free, and varied expression. To take even this first step towards a happy society is a herculean task. After it has been accomplished, generations to come will see what the creature [us] will do next. We none of us know; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do