Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

These points of ours are going to rival Luther’s placard on the doors of Wittenberg!.

I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Critics build nothing.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

When somebody comes up with a progressive idea, to begin with, you're mad, bonkers. Then if you go on, you're dangerous. Then there's a pause. Then you can't find anyone who can say they thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made. This is why I do believe in the vote. In the end, all these people who've been tempted to the right realise the warning lights in their constituency are brighter than the bright lights from No. 10 offering them things.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.