Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

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