“Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?”

“What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself.”

Ivar Ekeland (1944) French mathematician

“Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”

Spike Jonze (1969) American director and actor

“Philosophy was as naive as science in its unconscious acceptance of the assumptions or dynamic of typography.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.”

William Gibson book Idoru

“I’m not insane, sir,” I said. “I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

“It is easier to point fingers than to accept responsibilities. People complain about elected officials but they do not care to vote. They criticize some multinational corporations but their banks and 401K are profiting from the stocks of those companies.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked