Rex Stout Quotes

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 tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

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

I don't like change.

. . . escape is easier than change.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

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

Seabeck is slow to change.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

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

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

Inertia is the most powerful force in politics.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

I don't like change that much.

I think people don't really like change.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.