Simone Weil Quotes

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

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

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

To stand still is to regress.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

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

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.