Behind-the-smile Quote by Owen Jones Download Open image ““She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young”” — Owen Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behind-the-smile Mosquitoes Quote
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“The time, the mosquito will land on your testicles, the way you'll kill it, will help you to resolve world issues without violence” — Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason Copy Share Image
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“...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people back higher taxes on the rich. Yet these are fringe ideas within most of the mainstream media, which marginalises… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low wages, insecure… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“We are like the RCMP, we are Mountees and we always get our man to come, just not always quietly.” — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
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