Walter Bagehot Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Quality, Doe

  Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.194

• The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Cynical, Stupidity

  Walter Bagehot (1974). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The political essays”

• A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

• What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Stupidity, Consistency, Quality

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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