75 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot föddes den February 3rd 1826 och dog den 24 March 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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 Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. |
| So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong |
| So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable. |
| The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. |
| The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions - |
| The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. |
| The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. |
| The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. |
| The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. |
| The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be |
| The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. |
| The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. |
| The real essence of work is concentrated energy |
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