Owen Jones Quotes

#1. Yet there is a logical flaw at the heart of Establishment thinking. It may abhor the state - but it is completely dependent on the state to flourish.

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#2. A stack overflow error caused cabin fever and the reset button was Pattaya.

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#3. May you always look as beautiful as this last time I saw you.

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#4. When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

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#5. You can argue whether it's right or wrong,' says Halfon about the scrapping of Connexions, 'and yes I believe we should be balancing the economy, but nevertheless the think-tank people never consider how it actually impacts on the front, although they do create an intellectual framework.

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#6. Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.

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#7. One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together.

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#8. We are like the RCMP, we are Mountees and we always get our man to come, just not always quietly.

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#9. Under the modern Establishment, the function of the state has been reconfigured. Now, it exists to support private interests, including sectors - like the City - which have nothing but contempt for the state.

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#10. The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.

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#11. A victory is scored when your opponents are forced to debate issues they would rather leave ignored

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#12. Chav-bashing draws on a long, ignoble tradition of class hatred. But it cannot be understood without looking at more recent events. Above all, it is the bastard child of a very British class war.

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#13. The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.

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#14. If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.

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#15. The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

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#16. She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young

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#17. We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

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#18. Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

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#19. He had become the writers' equivalent of a goldfish after years of writing 500 word articles and wondered whether mind-expanding drugs would help him hold a full-length plot in his head, because he was having problems with continuity.

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#20. But as the late socialist politician Tony Benn would often put it, social change is a combination of two things: 'the burning flame of anger at injustice, and the burning flame of hope for a better world'.

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