What kind of an idea are you

What kind of an idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hungred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses