Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

In the contradiction lies the hope.

Without contraries there is no progression.

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

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

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.