“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.” MenDoeShowsPainConditionsDangerousMoralityEasierLaborPainfulResortsPlunder Book:The Law Source: The Law
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanStoriesSchoolCoursesMistakeEducationStudySeeingConditionsDutyHabitEasierHolyFoundationStructureWingsAddEducationalGravesCuriousEnjoymentInquiryCoercion Author:Albert Einstein
“The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.” MenKindWisdomTodayPoliticsEconomyConditionsEasierUniversalPropertyCreditLiberalismOwnersUnitsReductionEmissionsTransactionsLendingAbsorptionSmall Man Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.” ThinkingTryingHumansEasyForgetConditionsBuildingEasierComfortHuman ConditionFenceEnjoyablePitfalls Author:Nick Offerman
“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.” MenGivingHumansLooksStatesActionIndividualGrowsPartyHappenedConditionsEasierCivilizationConsequenceWittyDinnerGreekPleasantDoomedEntitlementGood FoodDinner PartyAthensHuman Actions Author:Edith Hamilton
“I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.” IfsKnowsHas BeensFeelingsFeltFireConditionsWords Of WisdomEasierFaultsTemperCoalImpatientGood SenseGood Feeling Book:Great Expectations Source: Great Expectations
“The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial conditions and processes in order to make outrages upon them not outrageous.” OrderProcessConditionsEasierConceptsOutrageousOutrage Author:William Morris Davis
“Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they came in contact with, because it had been pent up too long - women now come from a new position of easier, more comfortable self-affirmation and empowerment. Women are given to tolerance and are more able to love. I hope it happens also to men.” MenLongSelfHappensAbleLawGivenConditionsPositionEasierComfortableEmpowermentRageToleranceContactExcessOppressedAffirmationSelf AffirmationNew Position Author:Betty Friedan
“It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.” IfsWorldLooksSometimesAgeLawSocialRealizingViewsConditionsEasierPrejudicePoint Of ViewPsychologicalMentalityPersistHostilityDeep DownVery Sad Author:Dacia Maraini
“What interests you most is our present condition: it is what we would have desired, thorny and difficult, but it is made easier by the unction of grace and alleviated by an all-kind Providence whose help is never withdrawn and whose protection is felt at every moment.” KindMadeMomentsHelpingFeltDifficultInterestGraceConditionsEasierProtectionAll KindsProvidence Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne
“Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local cultures to find an audience that resonates with their music, whether local or globally.” CultureMemoriesAudienceConditionsMediaEasierInfiniteLocalsTechnological Author:Kode9
“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.” MenShouldDoeUseShowsPainLawPurposeForceHistoryConditionsDangerousMoralityEasierProtectLaborPropertyPainfulTendenciesCollectivesEvidentResortsPlunder Author:Frederic Bastiat