Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 122
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
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Frances Wright (1795–1852) American activist
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Context: Where men then are free to consult experience they will correct their practice, and make changes for the better. It follows, therefore, that the more free men are, the more changes they will make. In the beginning, possibly, for the worse; but most certainly in time for the better; until their knowledge enlarging by observation, and their judgment strengthening by exercise, they will find themselves in the straight, broad, fair road of improvement. Out of change, therefore, springs improvement; and the people who shall have imagined a peaceable mode of changing their institutions, hold a surety for their melioration. This surety is worth all other excellences. Better were the prospects of a people under the influence of the worst government who should hold the power of changing it, that those of a people under the best who should hold no such power. Here, then is the great beauty of American government.
