Ralph Miliband Quotes

#1. Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

Tariq Ali

#2. Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Shaun McNiff

#3. We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Jeremy Grantham

#4. Passionate life is the beauty of a sacred-existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Richard Powers

#6. Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Masiela Lusha

#7. Quite the bromance you have there Cole, with Alex Riley..

Josh Mathews

#8. All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict--how to contain it, or abolish it.

Ralph Miliband

#9. You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus. "Yessir,

Harper Lee

#10. It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Clive Anderson

#11. I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

Roger Daltrey

#12. The horror that riveted through me, the absolute terror with a taint of nausea, stunned me speechless for three, maybe four seconds. I put the mug down and made a cross with my fingers, screaming, "Death before decaf!" as Garrett poured himself a cup. The fool.

Darynda Jones

#13. Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Brian Tracy

#14. It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult

Ashlyn Macnamara

#15. The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.

Ian McEwan

#16. We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.

Jamshyd Godrej

#17. The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.

Anne Rice