"There
is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more
dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer
has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in
all who would profit by the new order.
The
lukewarmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries which have the law
and tradition in their favour and partly from the incredibility of mankind who
do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of
it."
Machiavelli (1513)
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