John Maynard
John Maynard
compared gradual ideas interests power vastly
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas
powerful freedom ideas
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
ideas ties errors
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
ideas encroachment interest
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
party past ideas
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
ideas sound behinds
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
ideas evil dangerous
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
ideas hard new-ideas
It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
ideas people forget
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
current guide misleading run
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
change facts
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
education
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent
fail reputation succeed teaches wisdom worldly
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally
ought wild words
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.