"All human institutions since the dawn of prehistory or earlier had always been designed to prevent change--all of them: family, government, church, army. Change has always been a catastrophic threat to human security." - Peter R. Drucker, _Technology, Management, and Society_ (2010)
It is only the supremely wise or the deeply ignorant who never alter. --Confucius (551-479 BC) (In Marion Parker's _Thoughts Of The Great: A Scrapbook of Quotations_ [1960])
Without regeneration it is morally and spiritually impossible for a person to believe in Christ. —John Murray
A German friend once remarked that Hitler was only the second most destructive thing his country had unleashed upon the world. Worse by far, he said, were the ideas of Karl Marx. The notion an idea could be more destructive than fleets of bombers and Panzer divisions is a large claim but there is evidence in support of it. ... Explosives can achieve gross destruction. But it misses things between the craters; by contrast a mental bomb can destroy civilization itself; its value, institutions, goals and even its grip upon
reality. In the contest between Panzer division and Manifesto, the manifesto appears far the more powerful. The computer revolution has given us the tools to understand why Communism has so much devastating power. We can now recognize it as history's greatest and most dangerous piece of intellectual malware, whose only true rival is radical Islam.
-- Richard Fernandez, More Powerful Than a Bomb
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/05/15/the-more-powerful-than-a-bomb/
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