Jane Jacobs Quotes

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.