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“The world has become too dangerous for anything less than utopias.”

John R. Platt (1918–1992) American physicist

John R. Piatt (1969) in: New York Times, September 2, 1969.

“677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.”

Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint

Tulsidas in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 37

“The term “leadership” connotes critical experience rather than routine practice.”

Philip Selznick (1919–2010) American sociologist

Source: Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation, 1957, p. 48

“It is much more trying to be continually tormented by evil men than by devils.”

John of St. Samson (1571–1636)

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Einstein when asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?” a conferee at a meeting at Princeton, N.J. (Jan 1946), as recalled by Greenville Clark in "Letters to the Times" in New York Times (22 Apr 1955), 24
1940s
Variant: That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.

“America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Amerika, du hast es besser—als unser Kontinent, der alte.
Wendts Musen-Almanach (1831)

“Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.”

Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron

Le cose mal fatte e di gran tempo passate son più agevoli a riprendere che ad emendare.
Second Day, Fifth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)

“There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.”

Neil Gaiman book Anansi Boys

Source: Anansi Boys (2005), Ch. 9

“The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.”

James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician

The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

“I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

1994 interview, quoted in Filene Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music (2000), p. 197

“I'd rather do that than build chicken sheds no-one wanted!”

Ian Holloway (1963) English association football player and manager

On Blackpool making the Championship play-off final in 2010 having spent a year out of football making hen houses. <br class="br"> Sport Quotes of the Week, Charles, Chris, 2010-05-12, BBC Sport, 2010-05-22, Quotez http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrischarles/2010/05/quotes_of_the_week_24.html, <br class="br">Sourced quotes

“Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 8: Economic Power

“No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun.”

William B. Ruger (1916–2002) American inventor

Ruger to Tom Brokaw of NBC News in 1992. ([Fully Loaded: Inside the Shadowy World of America’s 10 Biggest Gunmakers, Josh, Harkinson, June 14, 2016, May 31, 2018, Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/fully-loaded-ten-biggest-gun-manufacturers-america/]; [Magazine limits were first proposed by Connecticut gun maker, Connecticut Magazine, New Haven Register, April 1, 2013, June 6, 2018, https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Magazine-limits-were-first-proposed-by-11435654.php]).