"Ideas are the most mysterious things in a mysterious world . . . They are beyond prediction. They appear to have a life of their own, independent of space and time, and to come and go at their own pleasure . . . Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world."
William MacNeile Dixon
"One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth?"
William Morris
