--- title: "1 Manufacturing Bottle Quotes By Neal Ascherson" description: "1 Manufacturing Bottle quotes by Neal Ascherson. Plus more from Neal Ascherson and more Manufacturing Bottle sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/neal-ascherson-24717_bottles_history-the-product-not-the-raw-material_224407.jpg" --- > [History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/history-the-product-not-the-raw-material-is-a-bottle-with-a-label-for/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/neal-ascherson-24717_bottles_history-the-product-not-the-raw-material_224407.jpg) ## More by Neal Ascherson > [It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/it-was-a-real-revolution-but-with-one-missing-feature-that-is-the/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/history-the-product-not-the-raw-material-is-a-bottle-with-a-label-for/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/who-invented-political-tolerance-the-english-invented-it-it-s/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/the-way-that-words-mutate-reminds-me-of-fashions-in-music-the-word/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/to-be-defeated-but-not-to-give-in-is-victory/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/well-if-there-is-a-spectrum-between-ethnic-and-civic-forms-of/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/broadly-speaking-most-people-lived-their-lives-in-a-kind-of-unwilling/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/but-the-people-did-get-it-they-had-lost-something-not-exactly-their/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/in-moscow-dim-and-green-under-the-summer-rain-columns-of-armour-were/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Piłsudski”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/to-be-defeated-but-not-to-give-in-is-victory-j-sef-pi-sudski/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/i-think-england-has-been-in-the-long-term-damaged-by-britishness/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/when-tony-benn-became-a-minister-in-the-1960s-and-i-think-this-must/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/there-are-many-kinds-of-revelation-but-the-most-powerful-is-the/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/the-very-word-change-has-changed-when-i-was-young-and-not-just/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) > [English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/english-stupidity-is-an-organism-so-primitive-that-it-is-apparently/) [Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/manufacturing-bottle/neal-ascherson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Manufacturing Bottle Quotes By Neal Ascherson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. 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