"Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense."

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Source : The Spectator, pp. 223-224, February 17, 1984.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Common Sense Quotes #Common Quotes

“And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within a caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system”
“I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.”
“The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.”
“How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
“We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.”

Source : "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.”

Source : "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“Can I ask you something personal?â€ Six inches but I tell everyone eight.”

Source : John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.89, Penguin

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