Robert Kennedy Quotes

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.

The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is … a natural defense against change.

When push comes to shove, the status quo is a very powerful force.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

I don't like change that much.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

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.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.