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 More Quotes by Margaret Halsey More Quotes From Margaret Halsey the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind. Margaret Halsey rags tables wind in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume. Margaret Halsey childhood daughter people In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it. Margaret Halsey roles business sex In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity. Margaret Halsey scarcity emotional business 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. Margaret Halsey maturity business children It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose. Margaret Halsey justice men children The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. Margaret Halsey rodents definitions race Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. Margaret Halsey shoes england looks It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all. Margaret Halsey food firsts thinking A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees. Margaret Halsey fighting struggle men prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand. Margaret Halsey disease giving hands My knees could have been stirred with a spoon. Margaret Halsey spoons knees fear In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together. Margaret Halsey practice peace people Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence. Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey little-things humility time people He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation. Margaret Halsey anything feeling fine character The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part. Margaret Halsey fat role call part
