John Steinbeck Quotes

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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

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.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

We do not need more status quo.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

We as a nation are not allergic to change and have no desire to sanctify the status quo.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

Every new time will give its law.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

Change is the raw material of history.