Monday, October 11, 2010

Previously in Favourite Quotations (12)

The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves - William Hazlitt

Man is a compound being, whose character is formed of his constitution, or organisation at birth, & of the effects of external circumstances upon it, from birth to death - Robert Owen

Terrorism is the war of the poor; war is the terrorism of the rich - John Berger

My only confident dogma in economics is that every short statement on a broad issue is inherently false - Alfred Marshall

We all know that prime ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart - Saki

When sample size is small nothing is significant whereas when the sample size is large everything is significant - TMF Smith Presidential address RSS 1993