Maurice Strong Quotes

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Inertia is the most powerful force in politics.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Inertia is as powerful a force in society and politics as it is on physics, and effecting change can be demanding and discouraging.

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.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

Competence is the enemy of change!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

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

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Seabeck is slow to change.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

The most important actors of a scenario never ask for that scenario to be changed; neither do they seek developments that would end their roles.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Nobody wants to change.

When push comes to shove, the status quo is a very powerful force.

It is indeed a law of politics as well as of physics, that a body in action must overcome a body at rest.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

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

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