Nigel Farage Quotes

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

The status quo is a powerful force.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Professional opinion is almost inevitably against changes.

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

Rule, and change nothing.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

These reforms will not be popular with everybody—especially those who are doing just fine under the present system.

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

[Independent Federal] agencies, like other bureaucracies don’t like being transformed.. They have cultures and they want to preserve those cultures.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.

Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.