Ron Brownstein Quotes

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

Change will always be violent.

History is full of changings of the guard—some for the better, some for the worse.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Nothing is more certain than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

Reform starts here.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

… all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and the whole humanity is led stray by the reactionary forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress. The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march.