The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
