John Clapham famous quotes

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
-- John Clapham

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Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
-- John Clapham

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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.