Civil service Quotes by Shirley Williams

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

— Shirley Williams

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

— Shirley Williams

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

— Shirley Williams

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

— Shirley Williams

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

— Shirley Williams

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

— Shirley Williams

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

— Shirley Williams

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

— Shirley Williams

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

— Shirley Williams

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

— Shirley Williams

“The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty has become the doctrine of the executive in Parliament…”

— Shirley Williams

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

— Shirley Williams