Frantz Fanon Quotes

Don't be content with things as they are.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Reform always disappoints.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

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

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Reform starts here.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

We do not need more status quo.