“There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness… is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ‘’the pursuit of happiness'’ is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”
On BBC's Woman's Hour (5th October 1965)
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English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist 1903–1990Related quotes
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