Malorie Blackman Quotes

Stop talking about the way things are, unless you like them.

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

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

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

Nobody wants to change.

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

I don't question things when they're going right.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

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

We are addicted to being the way we are

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

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.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

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.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

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?