Todor Zhivkov Quotes

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

The pendulum will swing back.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Trump pivots, but then he pivots right back. It's a 360 degree pivot.

In times of revolution, it is dangerous to carry through fundamental changes suddenly, however reasonable and desirable they may be in themselves. This is to risk losing everything.

People don’t change from lions to rabbits in mid-flight.

As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another.

For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.

We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us.

The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.

While it's generally easier to stay the course, it's a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.