Walter Bagehot Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pain, Hate, Men

• Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Political, Principles

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.103, Lulu.com

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  Walter Bagehot

  Mistake, Trying, Belief

  Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”

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