It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
We do always have to make sure we keep people safe. There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.
I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
