Quotes

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

Good is a known quantity.
Good is what we all agree on.

Growth is not necessarily good.
Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research.

(As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.)

Man kann auf seinem Standpunkt stehen, aber man sollte nicht darauf sitzen.

Auch aus Steinen, die dir in den Weg gelegt werden, kannst du etwas Schönes bauen.

Entweder man lebt, oder man ist konsequent.

We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending.

I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist,

it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment (as the next step).

Wer was zu sagen hat, hat keine Eile.
Er läßt sich Zeit und sagt's in einer Zeile.

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.