Ramsay MacDonald and the Rise of Labour - Article by Professor Kenneth O. Morgan. University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Questions to consider and further readings.
War Against Poverty - Original pamphlet in pdf format, with preface by Ramsay Macdonald .
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) MacDonald, James Ramsay We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) MacDonald, James Ramsay
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story MacDonald, James Ramsay An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) MacDonald, James Ramsay
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) MacDonald, James Ramsay There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli MacDonald, James Ramsay
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus MacDonald, James Ramsay I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman MacDonald, James Ramsay
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur MacDonald, James Ramsay We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud MacDonald, James Ramsay
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. MacDonald, James Ramsay Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations MacDonald, James Ramsay
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov MacDonald, James Ramsay Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie MacDonald, James Ramsay
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein MacDonald, James Ramsay Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi MacDonald, James Ramsay
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor MacDonald, James Ramsay Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) MacDonald, James Ramsay
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha MacDonald, James Ramsay "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha MacDonald, James Ramsay
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T MacDonald, James Ramsay I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had MacDonald, James Ramsay
