Q. Quotes

1. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning – Winston Churchill (1874-1965), of the victory in Africa, Speech at the mansion house , 10 Nov, 1942.

2. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is part of nature- Johnny Speight (1922-1998), Social Statics

3. I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws- or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economic books- Paul A. Samuelson (1915-) Author of Economics: An introductory Analysis ,1948, the largest selling economics textbook in history.

4. If the Treasury was to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again…there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community…would probably become a good deal larger than it actually is – John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), The General theory of Employment

5. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Lecture noted down by Sarah Yule, quoted in her Borrowings.

6. People who don’t want anything worry me. The price isn’t right- Harold L. Lindsay and Russell Crouse, The State of the Union (film), 1948, spoken by Adolphe Menjou

7. I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life –Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), on seeing the first Reformed Parliament

8. Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others – David Cooper (1931-?), Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

9. Economics is our contemporary theology, regardless of how we spend Sunday- James Hillman, “Opening the Book,” Kinds of power: A guide to its intelligent uses ,1995.

10. You don’t go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul- Sam Keen (1931-), Jerry Brown radio interview, KPFA, Berkeley