Change Is Necessary Quotes

Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.