Glossy Quotes - page 2

The collective wisdom and the collective will of the nation resides not in any little Whitehall clique but in the whole mass of the people-in the producers, listening to the voice of the customer at home and abroad; in the savers and investors, using their eyes and their brains to lay out their resources to best advantage; in the consumers themselves, expressing through all the complex nervous system of the market their wishes, their needs, their expectations. In short, the true national economic plan is being made all the time by the very people and institutions which the intellectual arrogance of the Socialist affects to despise. "Under Tory free enterprise" says Labour's policy, "no limit is set to the amount of our national resources and intellectual talent consumed by the popular newspaper, the glossy magazine, the cinema, commercial television and the advertising industry." What a world of contempt for the ordinary man and woman breathes in that haughty sentence! (Enoch Powell)
"I am a shadow now, alas! alas! "Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling "Alone: I chant alone the holy mass, "While little sounds of life are round me knelling, "And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass, "And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, "Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me, "And thou art distant in Humanity. View quote
John Keats