The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.
Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.
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.