The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it. Margaret Halsey More Quotes by Margaret Halsey More Quotes From 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 englandlife-isyears One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage. Margaret Halsey racismracepeople 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 vanityracehands 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 whiteboyschildren Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat. Margaret Halsey soundsleepfather I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether. Margaret Halsey risinggenerationspeople 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 toleranceassumingway There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions. Margaret Halsey eastersportssex ... 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 proofproduceennui Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Margaret Halsey flowtrying Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced. Margaret Halsey diversityjusticechildren Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. Margaret Halsey vistasboredomthinking The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand. Margaret Halsey cookingdarkfood Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores. Margaret Halsey gentlemanworldthinking The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action. Margaret Halsey ethicsrealdoe 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 tidescommunicationperfection Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. Margaret Halsey employedliquorpatterns when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them. Margaret Halsey flocksspokesdrinking I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. Margaret Halsey anxietywhitehot Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. Margaret Halsey affectiondoepeople
