"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
― Walter Bagehot
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History
More From Walter Bagehot
- "The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
- "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
- "The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other."
More In History
- "De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."― Aldous Huxley
- "Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in."― Arnold Schwarzenegger
- "Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."― Dag Hammarskjold