Octavio Paz Quotes

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

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

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

I think I can change the game.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

I want to break standards.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

I just want to change the game.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it