Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

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

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

In politics, as in every other department of life, the clashing of thought is sometimes a proof of disease, but always a promise of reform.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Only force would produce social change.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

There is no progress without struggle.

Anyone who is a leader for reform will accumulate enemies over time.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion..

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ...

We all know that in democracies, some of these [necessary] reforms are unpopular.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.