Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman famous quotes

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.
-- Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

#People #Principles #Argument

On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.
-- Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

#Cutting #Shadow #Looks

We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.
-- Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

#Challenges #World #States

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.