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At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy

“As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future. Is this only to console ourselves for being excluded from it?…

— Emil Cioran

“The necessity of starting life afresh on new foundations. That these foundations must be of social justice, of rational organization, of respect for the…

— Victor Serge

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is…

— Robert F. Kennedy

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in…

— Barack Obama

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa