“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.” Has BeensTwoGovernmentLastsPoliticalTermHalfImpossibleSubjectsCenturyTypeOrganizationAccountsDifficultyMereLogicalResolvePerversionMake Out Author:Albert J. Nock
“We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.” SelfKindnessEqualAccountsDifficultyRevengeWickedInjury Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.” Would BeAccountsDifficultyWiser Author:Jeremy Bentham
“I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.” MeanReasonSufferingAnimalIssuesSacrificeBehaviorAccountsDifficultyVeganAnnoyingConsistentlyFlexibleVeganismAnimal Suffering Author:Gary L. Francione
“Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.” HumansLiteraturePossibilityActivityAccountsDifficultyComplexityPreciseHuman Activity Author:Lionel Trilling
“Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.” ScienceAccountsDifficulty Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst
“Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingSelfStatesReasonBrainEnemyMillionsProjectsAccountsDifficultyExcusePreparationReason WhyEmptinessJustificationTransparentMarketplaceBank AccountsSelf JustificationAlibis Author:Steven Pressfield