Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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

I like progress but I hate change.

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.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

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

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

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.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

I don't like change that much.

Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better.

I think we stick with what we know.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

I think people don't really like change.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

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.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.