Full Idea
It is equally futile to refuse or to accept the social order: we must endure its changes for the better or the worse with a despairing conformism, as we endure birth, love, the weather, and death.
Gist of Idea
It is pointless to refuse or accept the social order; we must endure it like the weather
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'The Reactionary')
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.41