# Quote — E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

> If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

- Author: [E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md)
- Book: [Aspects of the Novel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/aspects-of-the-novel.md)
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