History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.