Aldous Huxley Quotes

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Seabeck is slow to change.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

Rule, and change nothing.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

The status quo is a powerful force.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

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 don't like change.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.