We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

All things are only transitory.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.