# Quote — Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb

> “If you opt out, you don’t change anything.”
>
> “Why should I run round helping to get power for a group of idiots who’ll end up just as dangerous as the ones already in power?”
>
> You really don’t think anyone can make things better?”
>
> “No. What’s going to happen will happen.”

- Author: [Jane Rogers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-rogers.md)
- Book: [The Testament of Jessie Lamb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-rogers/the-testament-of-jessie-lamb.md)
- Page: 137
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Rogers#The_Testament_of_Jessie_Lamb_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-rogers/the-testament-of-jessie-lamb/if-you-opt

## More from this book

> Every other method of resolving this difference of opinion has failed. We are reduced to violence, which is the last resort.

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-rogers/the-testament-of-jessie-lamb/every-other-method.md)

> “Frankly Jess, on the grand scale—”
>
> “You can’t think on the grand scale. You have to think on the small scale. Otherwise no-one’d ever do anything.”

p. 137 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-rogers/the-testament-of-jessie-lamb/frankly-jess-on-the.md)

> But naturally people fussed and objected like they always do when someone tries to do something positive.

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-rogers/the-testament-of-jessie-lamb/but-naturally-people.md)