“A majority of all grievances presented at Harwood have always stemmed from a change situation.”
John R. P. French (1913–1995) American psychologist
Source: "Overcoming resistance to change." 1948, p. 531
“True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.
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