#disastrous

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#between #choosing #consists #disastrous #politics

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#compel #country #disastrous #french #house

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#business #disastrous #hands #help #just

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#disastrous #enthusiasm #falling #get #losing

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#disastrous #dresser #i #label #main

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i