Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.