Eliot Spitzer Quotes

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Revolution begins with one step

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

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

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

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

No great reform can be achieved except at the sacrifice of some opinion.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.

A book I often refer to by Naomi Klein is called 'No Is Not Enough'. It's not enough to be against something. You have to actually be for something. A better alternative. For me, that's about transformation.

Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better.

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.

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

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

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

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.