The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.
I resist change even as I call for it.
Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.
Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
The public doesn't adopt radical concepts very quickly.
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.
For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
