Quotes by Margaret Halsey

Margaret Halsey

… giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Alcohol

Giving Up

Self

… organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money — a theory which convinces nobody — or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

Giving

Likes

Two

… 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.

Doe

Opinion

Thinking

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.

Business

Children

Groups

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Business

People

Race

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.

Assuming

Tolerance

Way

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

Communication

Culture

Inferiority

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Class

Feelings

Levels

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them – to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

Business

Children

Maturity

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Demand

Democracy

Suspension

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Affection

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Anxiety

Assuming

Assumption

Attitude

Beautiful

Boys

Business

Careers

Challenges

Character

Children

Civilization

Class

Clock

Communication

Competition

Cooking

Creative

Culture

Dark

Defeated

Definitions

Degrees

Demand

Democracy

Disease

Diversity

Doctors

Doe

Drinking

Employed

England

English History

Envy

Equality

Ethics

Example

Feelings

Feels

Fifty

Firsts

Flocks

Food

Four

Funny

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Quotes by Margaret Halsey

Margaret Halsey

… giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

… 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.

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.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

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.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

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