“There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of t...” — Thomas Babington Macaulay Quote

“There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.”

“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”

“Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.”

“If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”

“Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.”

“As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.”