90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 februar 1826 och dog den 24 mars 1877 - engelsk författare och journalist.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Liv

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything

Skrive

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Svakhet

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations

Fristelse

Inga stora verk har någonsin producerats utan efter en lång period av stilla och fundersam meditation.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation

Jobb

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

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