The quote "If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change." is famous quote attributed to Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Anglo-Irish statesman.
Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who at any rate quoted it) and to Edmund Burke, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22
Misattributed
“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Attributed to Edmund Burke, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who quoted it) and to Benjamin Disraeli, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22.
Misattributed
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist
As quoted in Life In the Open Sea (1972) by William M. Stephens, p. 21.
1970s and later
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
Johnny Carson (1925–2005) American talk show host and magician
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)
Ernst Fischer (1899–1972) Austrian literature historian, publicist and writer
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (1965), Penguin Books, translated by Anna Bostock.
John Bellamy Foster (1953) Sociology professor and Marxist writer
Interview with Left Voice (2017)
