Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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