#rita

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. ↗

— David Miliband

#assumptions #bad #britain #children #class

Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#britain #change #charge #country #generation

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#across #britain #class #country #definitely

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#bind #common #common sense #heed #heritage

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#exhibitions #irritates #issues #life #much

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.' ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#brilliant #britain #described #development #doing

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#causes #certain #chronic #direction #gravitate

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#based #becomes #custodian #customs #each

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#britain #cabinet #charles #during #europe