Adapted Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

— William Cowper

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to…

— George Washington

To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

— Edward Coke

“a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

— Ray Dalio

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess…

— John Locke

“Having a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

— Ray Dalio

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of…

— John Henry Newman

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

— Publilius Syrus

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

— Gautama Buddha