Rip Torn Quotes

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical change, until someone has told them what it will lead to.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

You have to accept that traditions exist, that people don't change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

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.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

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.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.