Mark Twain Quotes

Sometimes, when a tide starts to sweep, it makes no difference what the traditions are.

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

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

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

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

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

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

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

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

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'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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.

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

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Change will always be violent.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

Reform means difficulties. History moves often by leaps, then it moves slowly, because the resistance is organizing itself.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

Some people like to reform everything they can get their hands on. Others want to fold away and worship whatever is presented to them by the caprice of history.

Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you. They cannot tell whether you are right or wrong, but they know that you are guilty of a pragmatical assumption of superiority over them which they do not like.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.