Henry Williams Brands Quotes

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

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.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

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

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

I am a radical.

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

Liberalism is but childishness, which is easily brought to reason; but revolution is a force, and one must know how to use it.

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

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

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

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

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

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

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.