“Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.”

“It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the fact that innovation requires change.”

“Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!”

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind of propaganda that works so well on the majority. Among the masses „instinct is supreme, and from instinct comes faith...”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“The effect of education on political attitudes is complicated,for democratic society. The self-professed aim of modern educationis to "liberate" people from prejudices and traditional formsof authority. Educated people are said not to obey authorityblindly, but rather learn to think for themselves. Even if thisdoesn't happen on a mass basis, people can be taught to see theirown self-interest more clearly, and over a longer time horizon.Education also makes people demand more of themselves and forthemselves; in other words, they acquire a certain sense of dignitywhich they want to have respected by their fellow citizens and bythe state. In a traditional peasant society, it is possible for a locallandlord (or, for that matter, a communist commissar) to recruitpeasants to kill other peasants and dispossess them of their land.They do so not because it is in their interest, but because they areused to obeying authority. Urban professionals in developed countries, on the other hand, can be recruited to a lot of nuttycauses like liquid diets and marathon running, but they tend notto volunteer for private armies or death squads simply becausesomeone in a uniform tells them to do so”