Evo Morales Quotes

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

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

Only force would produce social change.

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.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

Anyone who is a leader for reform will accumulate enemies over time.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

Revolutions are not easy.

A book I often refer to by Naomi Klein is called 'No Is Not Enough'. It's not enough to be against something. You have to actually be for something. A better alternative. For me, that's about transformation.

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.