You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
Reform has to emanate from the inside. It has to be compatible with your customs. … One cannot impose one’s will on the majority of the people as much as one wants to do so.
...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.
Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.
It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.
A change imposed is a change opposed.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
When you come into a country, it's difficult to come in and say, 'I will change everything.' If people have things in their mind, then it's not the best approach.
