Josiah Stamp

“The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn well pleases.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

“Banking is a very peculiar business. We are investing other people's money and we have to be fantastically careful.”

“The modern world is suffering from a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems.”

“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man.”

“A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.”

“The price of progress is trouble.”

“Man can do a great deal to change his environment; he can do still more to change himself.”