"What are your feelings about the rice idea? No? They'll just toss it?"
Philomene Long.

"The world is insane on a level far deeper than it realizes. The rice
won't change things one way or the other." John Bennett

"If we could only get enough people to walk together -- but we won't."
Charles Bukowski in an early poem.

"If we could only get enough people to sit together --we won't, but it
doesn't much matter." Something Shunryu Suzuki might have said.