Emmanuel Macron Quotes

Any initiative which patently served the interests of society was immediately viewed with suspicion and even with overt hostility. Why was our system so unresponsive to renewal and innovation?

There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

In every society the permanent government is more change averse than the changing government.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth. The historical method is supposed to prove that economic changes have been the inevitable outcome of natural laws. It just as often proves them to have been brought about by the self-seeking action of dominant classes.

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction.

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.

I've always thought that there are many things still left in society that are detached from the sense of ordinary people. I won't overlook them and I will determine what is right before taking bold action.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.

It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues.

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and those in power choose to stand with us.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.