Prestige Quotes - Page 10

• The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

  Brendan Myers

  Philosophical, Matter, Spirit

  Brendan Myers (2013). “The Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy: From the Iron Age to the 21st Century”, p.17, John Hunt Publishing

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• Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Wish, Done

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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