Top 100 Change History Quotes
#1. An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#2. We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy
#4. Images are powerful; they can distort memories, recreate reality and change history.
Self
#5. You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.
Sarah Gadon
#6. words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs,
Cath Crowley
#7. Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.
Rick Riordan
#8. Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.
Richard Bach
#9. One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
George Tenet
#10. I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.
Mahmoud Darwish
#11. When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.
Rebecca McKinsey
#12. Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.
Lee Ezell
#13. The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.
Jerry Falwell
#14. I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
Betty Friedan
#16. Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.
Josephine Humphreys
#17. Your requests change history because your prayers change God!
Max Lucado
#18. We are about to change history, said Saphira.
We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.
Ah, but what a glorious flight!
(Eragon to Saphira)
Christopher Paolini
#19. What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!
Bryant McGill
#20. To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
Agnes Varda
#21. Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.
Pete Seeger
#22. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
#23. We can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.
Faiz Triumph
#24. If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.
Diego Maradona
#26. The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
Czeslaw Milosz
#27. I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
Boris Becker
#28. Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben-Gurion
#29. Generals, admirals, kings, and presidents make history; words change history. In more than two centuries of watching, at least that has not changed. -- Joshua Augustus Johnson. "Appomattox
Lloyd Vancil
#30. I mean, doesn't it change history even if you just tread on an ant?' 'For the ant, certainly,' said Qu.
Terry Pratchett
#31. America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful.
"Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?
Kiera Cass
#32. I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.
Jack Ma
#33. I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
Danny Lyon
#34. For us to change history, we first need to change the future.
Anthony Liccione
#35. You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can ... how do you moderns say it ... think outside the cup.
Rick Riordan
#36. Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present ...
Jan Siegel
#37. We can't change history, but we can create the future.
Erwin McManus
#38. If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
Mark Batterson
#39. Even the Sovereign couldn't change History, but he could decide how History was interpreted ...
Heidi Ruby Miller
#40. Isn't that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn't know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it's bigger than any one man.
Dexter Palmer
#41. I never thought my cotton gin would change history.
Eli Whitney
#42. Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.
Jennifer Donnelly
#43. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#44. Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.
Robin McKinley
#45. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!
Rick Yancey
#46. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.
William Hurrell Mallock
#47. History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Gordon S. Wood
#48. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.
Chris Weedon
#49. Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
Arundhati Roy
#50. Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume
an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.
John Dewey
#51. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
#52. It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
Mark Kostabi
#53. But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in front of one, wipes and wipes its surface at though in this way she might change her face to something better
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#54. I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
Gustav Krupp
#55. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
Criss Jami
#56. We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world ... We adjust to change.
Dan Rather
#57. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.
Hughes Oliphant Old
#58. The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.
Michael Scott
#59. I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
Frank Luntz
#60. My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.
Bill McKibben
#61. I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.
Eve Plumb
#62. When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.
Tom Morello
#63. All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira Sachs
#64. What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
Jonathan Sacks
#65. Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott
#66. A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
Deepak Chopra
#67. We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
Anthony Liccione
#68. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick
Edward Hallett Carr
#69. Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.
Mary E. Pearson
#70. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.
John Gray
#71. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
Bill Watterson
#72. In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
#73. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#74. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#75. Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn't.
Rachel Harris
#76. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.
Jordan Maxwell
#77. Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.
Sara Sheridan
#78. For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin's memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.
Barack Obama
#79. We're going to have to change our traditions, our history
Michelle Obama
#80. Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
John F. Kennedy
#81. Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
Patricia Hill Collins
#82. Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.
Steve Maraboli
#84. But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children's history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
Ruth Ozeki
#85. Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
Desmond Tutu
#86. The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama
#87. General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.
Erik Larson
#88. We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
#89. But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.
Carlos Fuentes
#90. Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.
Robert Baer
#91. The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
Kate Elliott
#92. The power of belief alone could change the course of history.
Ted Dekker
#93. My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.
George W. Bush
#94. The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.
Thomas C. Oden
#95. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Terry Deary
#96. Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Margaret Thatcher
#97. The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.
Mao Zedong
#98. Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.
Carl Andre
#99. We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.
Cate Blanchett
#100. one way or another change the world don't let it change you .
Nick Young
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