That’s how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don’t belong to you.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
~ Peter Drucker
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The history of mankind and the place of the economy in it, is not, as the evolutionists would have it, an account of unconscious growth and organic continuity. Such an approach would necessarily obscure some aspects of economic development vital to men in the present phase of transition. For the dogma of organic continuity must, in the last resort, weaken man’s power of shaping his own history.
― Karl Polanyi
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell
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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything.
~ Franz Kafka
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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