Charlotte Despard Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Nothing is more certain than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren’t started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better—and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

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

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

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.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

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

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.