Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.