“Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.” Quote by Eva Figes
“The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.” HumansRaceHalfLogicPrejudiceMalesDefinitionsHuman RaceLogicalDisplayDictionaryGlowing Author:Eva Figes
“Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?” PeopleMenLooksMayChildrenHandsMightFacesFatherSinHusbandBlameGreedExcuseMaking MoneyProvidingExploitationNastyFistsGood HusbandHusband And Father Author:Eva Figes
“An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.” DoeDoneStuffPersonal GrowthImpressMba Author:Christine Comaford-Lynch
“I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.” UseSidesSawsDrugEvidenceImpactSignificantMy TimeLabourLastingUnitsEnforcementInterventionPointlessMantrasAvailabilityAffordabilityLasting Impact Author:Julian Critchley
“Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.” LongCountryTermPartyClearWingsObjectivesLong TermLabourProgressiveLabour Party Author:Jo Grimond
“The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy. Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice. Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.” StatesPhilosophyChoicesEconomyVirtueStressRoundsAll TimeNecksMainstreamEfficiencyMonopolyKeithMrs Thatcher Author:Jo Grimond
“We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden” FinalsDefeatImmigrationLiberalismForbiddenEmigration Author:Jo Grimond
“In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.” MenWayAgeBoundsOne WayAbandonTransition Author:Bernard Levin
“The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.” MindMovingImaginationWindExpectationsCloudsActiveLandscapeOur ThoughtsTransparent Author:William Hurrell Mallock
“Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.” HumansLooksAbleFacesSpiritExpressionTypeCapableMoodLandscapeHuman Faces Author:William Hurrell Mallock
