Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman quotes
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“What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.”
-- Maurice Glasman, Baron GlasmanSource : "'Ed Miliband Has an Angry, Insurgent Side’". Interview with Gary Gibbon, www.channel4.com. September 26, 2011.
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“On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.”
-- Maurice Glasman, Baron GlasmanSource : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.
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“We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.”
-- Maurice Glasman, Baron GlasmanSource : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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Source : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press
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“On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.”
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“A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.”
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Source : "The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate". In a Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
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