#w

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#big #commission #crawling #lone #think

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#impossible #socialism #unsustainable #what if

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#behind #blessed #both #good #him

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#damn #damn fool #except #first #fool

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#away #best #curtain #falls #go

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#cliche #foreign #forever #indiscretion #poised

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#every #every night #fix #get #junkies

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#ever #i #last #leave #me

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#almost #always #feel #home #politician

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#between #britain #dinosaur #most #role