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“It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.”

Men Home Easy Common Practice Mankind Please Idle Ridicule Censure

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.”

“Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.”

Way Giving Made Life Is Easy Moral Influence Mankind Luxury Giving Way

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.”

Men Ends Fall Found Easy Mankind Tools Drag Descent

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

Made Easy Interest Situation Seeing Mankind Easier Despair Tasks Difficulty Moved Genuine Accomplished Embarrassing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard