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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

Pay disparity has always been there.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.

The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.