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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

— Joseph Addison

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

— William James

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

— Lajos Kossuth

Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.

— William Godwin

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

— Marcus Garvey

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

— Livy

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

— Ambrose Bierce

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

— Ernest Gaines

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

— Tom Clancy

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