Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. >>

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official po >>

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. >>

Quotations about Institutions

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making conc >>

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, >>

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has depa >>

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Bagehot, Walter