Sayings & Quotes

[zqwerty]

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” - 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]

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
Rumi

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

“What is planted in each person's heart will sprout.”
Rumi

[zqwerty]

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

[Lilith7]

“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
Rumi

“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
Rumi

“Its discouraging to think how many pople are shocked by honesty & how few by deceit.”
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]

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


“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
Guiseppe Verdi

“He who dances walks on water & into a flame.”
Frederico Garcia Lorca.

[zqwerty]

“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.” Garry Kasparov

[Lilith7]

“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.”


“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous & the unpalatable.”

“Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

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

“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.”

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

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

“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. “

“War remains the decisive human failure. “

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

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

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

“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. “

“Conscience is better served by a myth. “

“Economics is not an exact science. “
John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

“The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. “

“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.”


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

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.

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

“People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.”

“I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

[zqwerty]

“I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

[Lilith7]

“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. “

“In any great organisation it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

“In any great organisation it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

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

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


John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lilith7]

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

“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.”

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