Home / Quotes / Quote by Jeremy Seabrook

Quote by Jeremy Seabrook

“To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.”

Quote by Jeremy Seabrook

Author

Jeremy Seabrook

Jeremy Seabrook is a British journalist renowned for his in-depth reporting on Asia, particularly South Asia. His career spans over half a century and covers a range of topics including politics, society, and economics. Seabrook's work often focuses on issues in developing countries, particularly in India and Pakistan. more

You May Also Like

“I feel constantly the tension of the quarterly cycles, the drive to produce shareowner value at the cost sometimes of customer value and employee value. [But] if you take equal care of the employees, they will take equal care of the customers and then we will get an equal or better opportunity for our shareowners.”

People Ifs Feels Sometimes Care Values Opportunity Business Produce Cost Equal Customers Tension Employee Cycles

Author:Marilyn C. Nelson

“Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.”

People Kind May Persons Shows Virtue Subjects Healthy Prejudice Chaos Complicated Complexity Gardening Virtuous Show Me Gardener Simplify

Author:Allen Lacy

“More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.”

People Running Dies Missing Food Eating Cooking Driving Culinary

Author:Duncan Hines

“Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.”

People Ifs Kind Matter Certain Accepting Violence Authority Regard Commit Certainty

Author:Edgar Friedenberg

“As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.”

Should Ideas Next Leader Team The Next One Bandwagon

Author:Roger Enrico

“People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future.”

People Ability Future

Author:Jeff Blackman

“The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.”

People Ifs Power

Author:Jon Wynne-Tyson

“Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is good, but tis best To prevent other people from falling" Better close up the source of temptation and crime Than deliver from dungeon or gallery Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff Than an ambulance down in the valley.”

People Young Fall Strong Voice Crime Source Calling Rounds Guides Temptation Fallen Valleys Rescue Fence Cliffs Gallery Dungeons Ambulance True Wisdom

Author:Joseph Malins

“Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.”

Children Inspiration Kids Forget Becoming Concern Concerned Parenting Raising Children Forget You Being A Parent

Author:Glennon Melton

“I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.”