Great Throughts Treasury

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Walter Bagehot

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

Stupidity | Writing |

Walter Lippmann

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul, which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

Administration | Government | Habit | Office | Opposition | Power | Stupidity | Government |

Walter Lippmann

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Greed | Labor | Responsibility | Rest | Stupidity | War |

W. Eugene Smith, fully William Eugene Smith

I... made brash, dashing interpretive photographs which were overly clever and with too much technique… with great depth of field, very little depth of feeling, and with considerable 'success'.

Beginning | News | Stupidity | War |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

It was toffee; they were advertising toffee, a nursemaid told Rezia. Together they spell t...o...f...

Stupidity |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Men | People | Stupidity |

Emile Zola

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Falsehood | Stupidity |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Danger | Disease | Fear | Man | Men | Stupidity | Time | Danger | Afraid | Vice |