The politics of the ordsprog

The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Virginia Woolf

When staff discovered it (the mould) we contacted an independent consultant who tested the area. He did a thorough inspection of the building and cleaned up the affected areas immediately. A follow up sampling showed the school was completely free of mould.

Last Wednesday staff discovered a couple of areas of mould growth on some classroom walls. They were less than a square foot in surface area, totally different from the last time. There was something like three or four (areas) of surface mould growth, not the kind of stuff before, when it was behind the walls and growing for a long time. This is a different story.

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Michel Foucault

It was good to be working under the new coach (Guus Hiddink). He seems to like lean, sharp players so I think I fit the mould. It's down to the coach now but hopefully I can get the opportunity to represent my country again.

Archie Thompson

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day-lewis

I would mould a world of fire and dew.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

William Butler Yeats

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, Sr.

The mould is lost wherein was made This a per se of all.

Alexander Montgomery

Who better to mould him than the greatest player ever.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Galbraith argued that the truly important economic issues must be evaluated through the lens of economics, politics, sociology, law, ideology and history simultaneously, and that economic analysis and prescription must always keep front and centre both the factors of power and the narratives that societies use to tell their economic stories.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Charlotte Bronte

Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness. My hero was Tom Merry, and I tried to mould my way of life according to his tenets.

Peter Cushing (1913-)

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