Margaret Halsey Quotes
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.
Halsey, Margaret. The Pseudo-Ethic. Simon and Schuster, 1963, p. 30.
This quotation so impressed Thomas Jefferson that he wrote it in his Commonplace Book.
There are few countries and times where serious complaints were not made about the moral degeneration of the times and the danger to children. This example is from England in the early 20th century.
She did not cite any such studies and others could not find them. Regardless of whether homosexuality is regarding as desirable or not history clearly shows major civilizations where homosexuality was openly practiced and the society thrived anyway. Ancient Greece is but one example. Kern has been censured for her discriminatory and insulting statements made in the legislatures. See {623313} & . {623311} This quotation shows that in a democracy, where legislators represent specific geographic areas, people who are uneducated, racist, homophobic, religiously bigoted and/or foolish can elect a representative who has some bizarre and/or hateful views. There have, in America, always been elected representatives whose views are out of the mainstream and embarrassing to most Americans. However in a free democracy freedom of speech and representation cannot be limited to sensible, constructive, logical or scientifically accurate content. Kern and others like her remind us all where education and public information access may be less than ideal.
Margaret Halsey was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Toward Some (1938) grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.
