Source: The Goblin Emperor (2014), Chapter 22, "The Bridge over the Upazhera" (p. 275)
“It will cause a great many changes.”
“Yes, but one cannot prevent change simply by wishing it not to happen.”
Source: The Goblin Emperor (2014), Chapter 22, "The Bridge over the Upazhera" (p. 275)
The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character
1920s
2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)
Context: It’s true that government cannot prevent all the downsides of the technological change and global competition that are out there right now, and some of those forces are also some of the things that are helping us grow. And it’s also true that some programs in the past, like welfare before it was reformed, were sometimes poorly designed, created disincentives to work. But we’ve also seen how government action time and again can make an enormous difference in increasing opportunity and bolstering ladders into the middle class. Investments in education, laws establishing collective bargaining, and a minimum wage -- these all contributed to rising standards of living for massive numbers of Americans.
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 5, Physical Destiny, p. 143
“Great changes are not caused by ideas alone; but they are not effected without ideas.”
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter III, The Movement Of Theory, p. 30.
The Sunday Times, London (10 May 1992)
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Source: The Culture of Make Believe (2003), p. XII
