"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

from I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), 
by Upton Sinclair

Young Grebes

                          "It does no take courage, Quixote.

                           to slaughter windmills in a windy world

                           or tilt against entrepreneurs.

                                                     It is a waste of  breath

                           to criticize vast corporations

                           The difficult thing

                                                    is to sit still

                                                    like a child in the yard

                           while the whole bleak catastrophe of winter

                           descends like a glacier into the soul."

                           from Soliloquy to Absent Friends

                           by D.G. Jones