“You might not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
Jessica Mitford
“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.”
Arnold Toynbee, quoted by Mark Steyn in National Review July 18, 2005
“Bentley’s Second Law of Economics – the only thing more dangerous than an economist is an amateur economist.”
J. William Pfeiffer
“If you can’t tie your shoelaces under pressure but play like a world-beater as soon as it’s too late, that’s worse in the dugout than being a no-talent klutz. That is called taking the apple.”
Thomas Boswell How Life Imitates the World Series
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Well, bucko, that's gonna do us about as much good as a football bat.”
“Reader William White” quoted in the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal July 12, 2004 [White could not remember who originally said it]
“The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of custom is complete.”
John Stuart Mill On Liberty
“Economics is about how people make choices, the economist James Duesenberry remarked in the 1950s, and sociology is about how they don’t have any choices to make.”
The New Republic Feb. 5 1990 [I did not record the author’s name]