The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. - Mark Twain
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed. - Thomas H. Huxley
...But today it is the United States that lives in infamy, as its government adopts the foreign policies of Imperial Japan.
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive - Barbara Deming