Margaret Heffernan Quotes

. . . escape is easier than change.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Nobody wants to change.

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

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

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.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

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

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

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

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.