You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
The key to successful vegetable cultivation lies in understanding the balance between nature and technology.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
The decline of trust in institutions is one of the most serious problems facing modern democracies.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.