Joseph de Maistre Quotes

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

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

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Reform starts here.

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

… evolution over revolution.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

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

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 would like to see evolution in my country, not revolution. It is much better for us to work together with the government to transform Saudi Arabia for the future.

We do not need more status quo.

Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

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

The times they are a-changing.

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

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.