Therese Fowler Quotes

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Piety and virtue lie in obedience and conformity, while nothing is more repugnant than change and innovation.

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

Sometimes, when a tide starts to sweep, it makes no difference what the traditions are.

Those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

The status quo is a powerful force.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

I don't like change.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Tradition is laziness.