Margaret Case Harriman Quotes

• no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  War, Long, Shots

  6 Copiar cita

• Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Crazy, People, Ifs

  4 Copiar cita

• [On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say, 'Look who's here!

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Years, Tree, Waiting

  4 Copiar cita

• [On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Country, Social, Process

  4 Copiar cita

• We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Air, Reform, Pillars

  4 Copiar cita

• I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Daughter, Father, Writing

  4 Copiar cita

• [Sobre las mujeres de la alta sociedad neoyorquina de los noventa que se dedicaban a la política, a obras benéficas y a otros trabajos voluntarios:] Sólo conocí a una mujer que dedicó su vida exclusivamente al juego social. Terminaba sus días organizando cenas con muñecos de papel, un colapso lamentable de ver.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  New York, Party, Games

  9 Copiar cita

• There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Army, Years, Giving

  4 Copiar cita

• Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Men, Soul, Corporations

  4 Copiar cita

• Desde hacía veinte años era de conocimiento general que en Washington se mantenía un insidioso Lobby para influir en la legislación y en la acción ejecutiva en nombre de intereses creados. ... El lobby era una criatura de las tinieblas. Trabajaba a puerta cerrada y susurraba en los rincones. Esta antigua industria era una forma de gobierno invisible.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Business, Doors, Years

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Walter Winchell