Quotes 181 till 200 of 354.
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No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
Lend Me Your Ears p387 -
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo -
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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