Historical Perspective Quotes

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their sili" "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America." "The romantic contrast between modern industry that destroys nature and our forefathers who lived in harmony with nature is groundless" "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good"