Alteration Quotes
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
The earliest expression of this idea was by the British Economist John Maynard Keynes -- Quotation {610150}
Many conservatives of the 19th Century honestly believed that for a well-grounded man, it was impossible to make a radical moral or cultural change. Froude thought that it was but should be done very carefully and sparingly. See {636915}.