John Foster Dulles Quotes

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

All I want to do is change the world.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

I'm trying to change the world.

Don't be content with things as they are.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

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

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

We do not need more status quo.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.