Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1993)
"Does Your Child Taste Salty?", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989)
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 411.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Seven, The Three Questions and the Question of Canada, p. 158
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 34
Moe Berg, interview in Ty Cobb (1975) by John McCallum, p. xii - <!-- Praeger Publishers -->
Context: Ty was an intellectual giant. He was the most fascinating personality I ever met in baseball. To him, a ball game wasn't a mere athletic contest. It was a knock-'em-down, crush-'em, relentless war. He was their enemy, and if they got in his way he ran right over them.
“It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.”
Only Yesterday http://books.google.com/books?id=cdmXVzZ5xOsC&q=%22It+is+easier+to+tear+down+a+code+than+to+put+a+new+one+in+its+place%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage, ch. 5, (1931)
