Terry Pratchett Quotes

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

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

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

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

Seabeck is slow to change.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

The status quo is a powerful force.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

Inertia is as powerful a force in society and politics as it is on physics, and effecting change can be demanding and discouraging.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

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.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Tradition is laziness.