Adjust The Action

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the actions.”
--Confucius

Progressive Propaganda

“The purpose of progressive propaganda is not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponds to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.”
--Theodore Dalrymple

Obvious Lies

“To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. If you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
--Theodore Dalrymple

Restate the Obvious

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
--George Orwell

Eventually See

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
--Edward R. Murrow

Simplicity

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
--John Maeda

Light to the Blind

“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”
--T. S. Eliot

Obvious Fact

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Just The Facts

“To ignore the facts does not change the facts.”
--Andy Rooney