Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Margaret Halsey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Doe
Real
Ethic
Ethics
Unless
Goes
Action
Nature
Become
More quotes by Margaret Halsey
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
Margaret Halsey
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
Margaret Halsey
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
Margaret Halsey
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Margaret Halsey
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
Margaret Halsey
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
Margaret Halsey
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
Margaret Halsey
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
Margaret Halsey
Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
Margaret Halsey
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
Margaret Halsey
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
Margaret Halsey
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
Margaret Halsey
Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
Margaret Halsey
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Margaret Halsey
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
Margaret Halsey
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
Margaret Halsey
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
Margaret Halsey
