Boris Strugatsky. Search designation, or Twenty seventh theorem of ethics (№ 276402)

Where, then, say, our eternal thirst for the admiration of a great personality? I'll tell you: we just want to believe that history is going to change one, but a great, stress - in one generation, "still with us". But great men don't change history, they just break us fate.... And always will be, until then, until they learn to CHANGE the NATURE of PEOPLE...