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Portrait of Owen Jones

Owen Jones

(1809–1874) Architect

118 quotes in 433 categories

Owen Jones argues that a society should be judged by how it cares for its children, warning that neglect harms the future. He points out that boys are often taught to be aggressive, demeaning women, and avoid showing emotion. He also notes that most people support higher taxes on the rich, even though mainstream media calls that idea fringe.

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Owen Jones was an architect, best known for The Grammar of Ornament.

Quick Facts About Owen Jones

Born: February 15, 1809
Died: April 19, 1874
Profession: Architect
Notable works: The Grammar of Ornament

About Owen Jones

Owen Jones is a left-wing British newspaper columnist, commentator, journalist, author and political activist. He writes a column for The Guardian and contributes to the New Statesman, Tribune, and The National and was previously a columnist for The Independent. He has two weekly web series, The Owen Jones Show and The Owen Jones Podcast.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.

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“May you always look as beautiful as this last time I saw you.”

Beautiful

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Brands are increasingly flirting with the realm of politics.

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Everyone is entitled to change their mind when the facts do.

Change

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University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

Creativity

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We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

Charitable

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Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.

Control

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Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

Britain

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Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on…

Dictatorship

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The vast majority of people back higher taxes on the rich. Yet these are fringe ideas within most of the mainstream media,…

Higher taxes

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In the neoliberal era, rolling back the state has in practice meant withdrawing state support and social security for the majority, but…

Cybersecurity

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The existence of billionaires should sound an alarm: they are the most extreme manifestation of wealth generated by the efforts of millions…

Being

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If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright…

Comfort

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In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were…

Apathy

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If you live in London, where politicians and media commentators spend most of their time, you are spoilt for transport choices -…

Choices

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But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe's own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees…

Europe

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From a genuine living wage to a mass housebuilding programme and strong workers' and trade unions rights preventing a race to the…

Drive

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My passionate belief is in the role of movements to achieve political power to transform society. In this country, we talk about…

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Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob…

Dad

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Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an…

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From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show…

Age

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The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions…

Driving

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Grief is like wandering through a minefield, as my mother puts it: however carefully you tread, a sudden detonation can happen out…

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For years, media moguls and campaigns bankrolled by the rich have fed the lie that migrants are the cause of injustices propagated…

Failure

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“Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very…

Children

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“Morality is personal. There is no such thing as collective conscience, collective kindness, collective gentleness, collective freedom,’ she planned to argue. ‘To…

Character

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“Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the…

Politics

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When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

Art

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A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

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A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.

Culture

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Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

Democracy

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I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I…

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A flourishing, diverse media is essential to a functioning democracy.

Democracy

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A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision.

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Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Backbone

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Labour's mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.

Britain

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It is easier to diagnose a crisis than to cure it, of course.

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We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

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“A stack overflow error caused cabin fever and the reset button was Pattaya.”

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“She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young”

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Owen Jones by topic

Politics (14) Life (12) Money (11)