Tim Jackson Quotes

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.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

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.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

We have traditions, attitudes, an attachment to social welfare and even if change is desirable, we won’t accept change overnight.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Reform that you may preserve.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.