Sayings & Quotes

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.ÔÇØ - Stewart Udall

[Neil F]

A recent one hard on RNZ National

Some people want to go to heaven without first dying.-- a comment on getting something without a sacrifice of some kind.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.ÔÇØ
Rumi

ÔÇ£If the light is in your heart, you will find the way home.:
Rumi

ÔÇ£What is planted in each person's heart will sprout.ÔÇØ
Rumi

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.ÔÇØ - Jane Goodall

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.ÔÇØ
Rumi

ÔÇ£Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.ÔÇØ
Rumi

ÔÇ£Its discouraging to think how many pople are shocked by honesty & how few by deceit.ÔÇØ
Noel Coward

[zqwerty]

Eskimo saying  perhaps they are not stars, but rather portals to heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down upon us to let us know they are ok.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Don't ever believe anything you read about a work of art except what you see in it yourself.ÔÇØ
Georgia O 'Keefe


ÔÇ£You may have the universe if I may have Italy.ÔÇØ
Guiseppe Verdi

ÔÇ£He who dances walks on water & into a flame.ÔÇØ
Frederico Garcia Lorca.

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£They are realizing that the war isn't winnable and that Putin is piloting the Russian Titanic into a Ukrainian iceberg. Either they convince or dump Putin, or they grab everything they can and accelerate the collapse currently underway.ÔÇØ Garry Kasparov

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous & the unpalatable.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.ÔÇØ

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. ÔÇ£

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£War remains the decisive human failure. ÔÇ£

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.ÔÇØ

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Conscience is better served by a myth. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Economics is not an exact science. ÔÇ£
John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ÔÇ£

John Kenneth Galbraith

[zqwerty]

You're having a good run with John Kenneth Galbraith, Lilith7, I've known that he existed but didn't know just how succinct he was, thanks for the pointers.

[Lilith7]

I'd heard of him, but only came across him recently.

ÔÇ£The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£People are the common denominator of progress. So,┬ápaucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.ÔÇØ

John Kenneth Galbraith

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.ÔÇØ

John Kenneth Galbraith

The proof of which we are seeing in NZ right now.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£One must always have in mind one simple fact: there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£In any great organisation it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. ÔÇ£

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£In any great organisation it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.ÔÇØ


John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.ÔÇØ
John Kenneth Galbraith