# Quote — Poul Anderson, The Long Way Home

> It sounds rather silly, doesn’t it? One little man thinking he can change history all by his lonesome. A lot of trouble has been caused by that delusion.

- Author: [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md)
- Book: [The Long Way Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home.md)
- Page: 219
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Long_Way_Home_(1955)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/it-sounds-rather

## More from this book

> For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/for-the-ordinary.md)

> It isn’t possible to have equality. It’s been tried again and again in history, giving everybody a vote, and it’s always failed—always, in a few generations, the worse politicians drove out the better. Because by definition, half the people always have below-average intelligence; and the average is not high.

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/it-isnt-possible.md)

> I am a peaceful man, captain. I rely more on my cerebral cortex than my guns.

p. 160 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/i-am-a-peaceful.md)