---
title: "1 Superior People Quotes By Dale Jamieson"
description: "1 Superior People quotes by Dale Jamieson. Plus more from Dale Jamieson and more Superior People sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/dale-jamieson-4075_amount_people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormo_1711329.jpg"
---

> [People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormous-amount-of-damage-in-their/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/dale-jamieson-4075_amount_people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormo_1711329.jpg)

## More by Dale Jamieson

> [People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/people-with-long-memories-and-a-vivid-sense-of-the-past-have-an/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/on-my-reading-of-history-people-who-want-to-bring-us-the-best-are/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/we-know-the-great-men-and-a-handful-of-heavily-cited-papers-in-our/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/the-very-essence-of-civilized-culture-is-that-we-deliberately/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/i-see-a-lot-of-individual-action-when-it-comes-to-environmental/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/moral-revolutions-are-typically-seen-retrospectively-prospectively/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/in-this-era-of-globalization-we-are-witnessing-struggles-within/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/you-can-t-imagine-anything-like-nature-as-we-know-it-without-predators/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/climate-change-involves-fundamental-choices-about-how-we-want-to-live/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/acts-are-right-in-virtue-of-the-goodness-of-their-consequences/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/our-traditional-systems-of-decision-making-are-just-not-up-to/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/one-of-the-real-dangers-of-our-time-is-people-s-indifference-to/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/we-re-not-good-at-noticing-slow-steady-changes-in-our-environments/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/philosophers-are-smart-analytical-and-skeptical-for-these-reasons/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

> [The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/the-millennium-development-goals-are-important-both-morally-and/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Superior People Quotes By Dale Jamieson",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Dale Jamieson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormous-amount-of-damage-in-their/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/dale-jamieson-4075_amount_people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormo_1711329.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/dale-jamieson-4075_amount_people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormo_1711329.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/dale-jamieson-4075_amount_people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormo_1711329.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best…” — Dale Jamieson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/",
            "name": "Superior People Quotes by Dale Jamieson",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/dale-jamieson-4075_amount_people-and-countries-have-done-an-enormo_1711329.jpg"
            },
            "description": "1 Superior People quotes by Dale Jamieson. Plus more from Dale Jamieson and more Superior People sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Superior People",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Dale Jamieson",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superior-people/dale-jamieson/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```