“What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.” MankindHabitObviousInevitableCatastropheFrustratingReally AmazingUnforeseenMuttering Author:Isaac Asimov
“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.” ShouldMatterMoralVirtueAtheismEffectsPolicyHabitIntellectualConcernConcernedPositive AtheismInevitableDiscouragingPublic PolicyInstill Author:Wendy Kaminer
“Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.” NaturalResultsProductsHabitInevitableExcitementIntoxication Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.” PeopleBelieveCultureBeliefChanceResultsPracticeConditionsHabitAssumingResponseInevitableInterfereNorm Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience