“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”