Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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
Society
Motive
Always
Understand
Individuals
Individual
Profit
Business
Group
Money
Large
Cannot
Therefore
Short
Children
Groups
Make
More quotes by Margaret Halsey
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Margaret Halsey
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
Margaret Halsey
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
Margaret Halsey
I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
Margaret Halsey
English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
Margaret Halsey
Example is better than precept.
Margaret Halsey
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
Margaret Halsey
The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
Margaret Halsey
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
Margaret Halsey
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
Margaret Halsey
This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
Margaret Halsey
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Margaret Halsey
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Margaret Halsey
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
Margaret Halsey
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
Margaret Halsey
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
Margaret Halsey
people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
Margaret Halsey