Owen Jones famous quotes

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

#Girl #Cheating #Husband

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.
-- Owen Jones

#Backbone #Ideological

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

#Art #Struggle #Succeed

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 dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.
-- Owen Jones

#Loss #Water #Long

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.
-- Owen Jones

#Vision #Strategy #Situation

My passionate belief is in the role of movements to achieve political power to transform society. In this country, we talk about the Labour movement, of which the Labour Party is the wing of government for the interests of people we were set up to champion.
-- Owen Jones

#Country #Party #People

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 motive - in it for the money, advance a career.
-- Owen Jones

#People #Age #Motive

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground.
-- Owen Jones

#Country #Thinking #People

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.
-- Owen Jones

#Believe #Loyal #I Believe

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

I love you girl...to the moon and back.

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.