Mark Rutte Quotes

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

We as a nation are not allergic to change and have no desire to sanctify the status quo.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Reform comes in the wake of disaster.

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

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.

The parties are all trying to reinvent themselves. I believe this upheaval is destined to take the country's fate into a different direction.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

Change is such hard work.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

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.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.