Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.
We are all riding on the same bus.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.