Makoto Shinkai Quotes

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

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

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

Movement isn't progress.

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and the whole humanity is led stray by the reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress. The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march.

I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

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.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

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

The '70's came and went already

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.

Not all speed is movement.

And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?