Lois Lowry Quotes

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Nobody wants to change.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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.

. . . escape is easier than change.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

Tradition is laziness.

I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

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.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.