Alber Elbaz Quotes

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

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

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

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

Revolutions are not easy.

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.

I'm definitely seeking to challenge tropes.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

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

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

Changing a political system is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up.

We do not need more status quo.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

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