Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Canadian - Writer | September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Laurence J. Peter

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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

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Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

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