Joyce Cary Quotes

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future. It cannot start upon its work before it has stricken off all superstition concerning the past

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

I do not fear … rupture—rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want a rupture with conformity … with half heartedness … with conservatism … with immobility. This rupture I believe necessary. This rupture I have betrothed myself to. This rupture the French people have approved. This rupture I will perform.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

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

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

It's a brave new world.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

I love challenging the status quo.