Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together. — 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
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. — 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
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just… — 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… — 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
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone. — 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… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of… — 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
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other… — 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
