
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”
Source: Quote in Margaret McManus, "Noël Coward a 'Blithe Spirit' — in Sunny Jamaica", The Des Moines Register (January 8, 1956), Section: Iowa TV Magazine, p. 5
As quoted by John Kenneth Galbraith in the Introduction to The Affluent Society (1977 edition)
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”
Source: Quote in Margaret McManus, "Noël Coward a 'Blithe Spirit' — in Sunny Jamaica", The Des Moines Register (January 8, 1956), Section: Iowa TV Magazine, p. 5
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
To Christopher North http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Early-Poems-of-Alfred-Lord-Tennyson10.html by Alfred Tennyson.
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“b>A man is not independent unless he has the courage to stand alone.</b”
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part III: Conclusion
“If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying praises to the devil, I say.”
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Context: Mutual aid, even though it may represent one of the factors of evolution, covers nevertheless one aspect only of human relations; that by the side of this current, powerful though it may be, there is, and always has been, the other current — the self-assertion of the individual, not only in its efforts to attain personal or caste superiority, economical, political, and spiritual, but also in its much more important although less evident function of breaking through the bonds, always prone to become crystallized, which the tribe, the village community, the city, and the State impose upon the individual. In other words, there is the self-assertion of the individual taken as a progressive element.
It is evident that no review of evolution can be complete, unless these two dominant currents are analyzed. However, the self-assertion of the individual or of groups of individuals, their struggles for superiority, and the conflicts which resulted therefrom, have already been analyzed, described, and glorified from time immemorial. In fact, up to the present time, this current alone has received attention from the epical poet, the annalist, the historian, and the sociologist. History, such as it has hitherto been written, is almost entirely a description of the ways and means by which theocracy, military power, autocracy, and, later on, the richer classes' rule have been promoted, established, and maintained.
He wrote in his letter addressed to Jawahar Lal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India when the Bharat Ratna title was conferred on him, as quoted in