Quotes About Ramsay Macdonald

#1. Girl: The kid buys a new tie and you curse him like he was Ramsay MacDonald.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#2. Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Ramsay MacDonald

#3. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Steve Ballmer

#4. Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

Ramsay MacDonald

#5. We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

Roscoe Bartlett

#6. The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

Ramsay MacDonald

#7. The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

Ramsay MacDonald

#8. When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

H.L. Mencken

#9. We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

Ramsay MacDonald

#10. Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

Ramsay MacDonald

#11. We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Ramsay MacDonald

#12. I would have done higher than that ... I would have set it higher.

Duane Chapman

#13. Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to understanding ourselves. This

Caitlin Doughty

#14. Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

Ramsay MacDonald

#15. We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

Ramsay MacDonald

#16. The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.

Ramsay MacDonald

#17. Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

Robert Jordan

#18. Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

Denis Johnson

#19. It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

Ramsay MacDonald