It Is Not From Top To Bottom

Let No Man Imagine That He Has No Influence.

I Am Firmly Convinced, As I Have Already Said, That To Effect Any Great Social Improvement, It Is Sympathy Rather Than Self-interest, The Sense Of Duty Rather Than The Desire For Self-advancement, That Must Be Appealed To. Envy Is Akin To Admiration, And It Is The Admiration That The Rich And Powerful Excite Which Secures The Perpetuation Of Aristocracies.

Man Must Be Doing Something, Or Fancy That He Is Doing Something, For In Him Throbs The Creative Impulse; The Mere Basker In The Sunshine Is Not A Natural, But An Abnormal Man.

Whence Shall Come The New Barbarians? Go Through The Squalid Quarters Of Great Cities, And You May See, Even Now, Their Gathering Hordes! How Shall Learning Perish? Men Will Cease To Read, And Books Will Kindle Fires And Be Turned Into Cartridges.

Let No Man Imagine That He Has No Influence. Whoever He May Be, And Wherever He May Be Placed, The Man Who Thinks Becomes A Light And A Power.