Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

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.

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

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

Inertia is as powerful a force in society and politics as it is on physics, and effecting change can be demanding and discouraging.

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

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.

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

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

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Seabeck is slow to change.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

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

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

…the burden of proof rests always upon the advocates of change.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

Those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.