"I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines."

--

Source : "After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell". Book by Norman Angell, 1951.

Norman Angell

#Party Quotes #Wings Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.”
“There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.”
“Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.”
“I have a point of view on the issues, but it's a complex point of view that really can't be summed up in a sentence or two. I'm not being intentionally vague or mushy, it's just that - in my mind - the real answer is complicated.”
“I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.”
“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”
“Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.”

Source : "Happiness: It Really Is Contagious". Interview, www.npr.org. December 5, 2008.
“Well, the Lord is going to get another one.”

You may also like:

Alfred Nobel
Chemist
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher
Edward Hallett Carr
Journalist
Friedrich von Bernhardi
Author
Hans Morgenthau
Correspondent
Herbert Simon
Scientist
Leonard Woolf
Author
Rudolf Carnap
Philosopher
William Ross Ashby