Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

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

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

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

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?