Two random quotes
December 8th 2010 07:25
Adlai Stevenson, quoted in: When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, chapter 6. I say that this is the source for the quote, but I can't find any book title by Adlai Stevenson with a name even remotely similar to this - you have to remember many of these quotes were collected back in the 80s, so I may have missed getting the correct title!
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable. All the observations about life which can be communicated handily are as well known to a man at twenty who has been attentive as to a man at fifty. He has been told them all, he has read them all, but he has not lived them all. What he knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is not the knowledge of formulas or forms of words, but of people, places, actions and knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love - the human experiences and emotions of this earth and oneself and other people; and perhaps too a little faith and a little reverence for things you cannot see.
Carol de Chateau - Metro Magazine, April 1988
People like Dr Philip Rushmer, past president of the Auckland Obstetric and Gynaecological Society [are] frankly worried about what promiscuous sex is doing to young women. Once he would have prescribed the pill with few misgivings; today he feels morally bound to tell them of the pitfalls of early sex. Especially sex with many different partners.
Interestingly enough, even though Carol de Chateau was a well-known journalist in the 80s, I can only find one reference to her on Google! (Apart from the one that refers back to the original place where this quote was quoted.)
And the paragraph in which her name appears isn't particularly complimentary. "Some in the media have mounted a hostile campaign to anything which recognises cultural diversity. From the 1980s, Metro and North and South had a number of columnists such as Carol de Chateau and Rosemary Macleod who vigorously opposed policies which considered Maori cultural concerns. De Chateau provided a major attack on the notion of being Pakeha (Wall, 1986) and was one of the first to highlight cultural safety in nursing education (du Chateau, 1992). Increasingly, the claim was that anything which reflected Maori concerns meant varying degrees of disadvantage to non-Maori and particularly to Pakeha. Maori culture and Maori politics were often caricatured, both in terms of an inaccurate or a superficial description of what was involved along with a vocabulary (e.g. 'guilty liberals', 'bone people', 'thought police') which disparaged Maori 'activists' and fellow travellers, typically Pakeha liberals."
The above comes from a report called Migration and Citizenship by Stephen Castles and Paul Spoonley, written in 1997.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable. All the observations about life which can be communicated handily are as well known to a man at twenty who has been attentive as to a man at fifty. He has been told them all, he has read them all, but he has not lived them all. What he knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is not the knowledge of formulas or forms of words, but of people, places, actions and knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love - the human experiences and emotions of this earth and oneself and other people; and perhaps too a little faith and a little reverence for things you cannot see.
Carol de Chateau - Metro Magazine, April 1988
People like Dr Philip Rushmer, past president of the Auckland Obstetric and Gynaecological Society [are] frankly worried about what promiscuous sex is doing to young women. Once he would have prescribed the pill with few misgivings; today he feels morally bound to tell them of the pitfalls of early sex. Especially sex with many different partners.
Interestingly enough, even though Carol de Chateau was a well-known journalist in the 80s, I can only find one reference to her on Google! (Apart from the one that refers back to the original place where this quote was quoted.)
And the paragraph in which her name appears isn't particularly complimentary. "Some in the media have mounted a hostile campaign to anything which recognises cultural diversity. From the 1980s, Metro and North and South had a number of columnists such as Carol de Chateau and Rosemary Macleod who vigorously opposed policies which considered Maori cultural concerns. De Chateau provided a major attack on the notion of being Pakeha (Wall, 1986) and was one of the first to highlight cultural safety in nursing education (du Chateau, 1992). Increasingly, the claim was that anything which reflected Maori concerns meant varying degrees of disadvantage to non-Maori and particularly to Pakeha. Maori culture and Maori politics were often caricatured, both in terms of an inaccurate or a superficial description of what was involved along with a vocabulary (e.g. 'guilty liberals', 'bone people', 'thought police') which disparaged Maori 'activists' and fellow travellers, typically Pakeha liberals."
The above comes from a report called Migration and Citizenship by Stephen Castles and Paul Spoonley, written in 1997.
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