Priti Patel Quotes

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

What is the argument on the other side? Only this, that no case has been found in which it has been done before. That argument does not appeal to me in the least. If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

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

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.