Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Sans Bach, Dieu serait un type de troisième ordre.

Robert Bakker
Robert Bakker

Both birds and crocs have the identical plan to their specialized gizzard apparatus, and this type of internal food processor is absent in the other "reptiles"

Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin

The politician is much nearer in type to the barrister and advocate than to the scientist…The advocate and the politician are more interested in persuasion than in proof. They have a client or a policy to defend. The political audience is not dishonest in itself, nor does it desire or approve dishonesty or misrepresentation in others, but it is an audience only imperfectly prepared to follow a

close argument, and the speaker wishes to make a favourable impression, to secure support for a policy. It is easy to see how this may lead to the depreciation of the verbal currency and to the circulation of promises which cannot be cashed.

Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin

Then, in no nation more than the English is there a diversified individuality. We are a people of individuals, and a people of character…The preservation of the individuality of the Englishman is essential to the preservation of the type of the race, and if our differences are smoothed out and we lose that gift, we shall lose at the same time our power. Uniformity of type is a bad thing. I

regret very much myself the uniformity of speech. Time was, two centuries ago, when you could have told by his speech from what part of England every member of Parliament came. He spoke the speech of his fathers, and I regret that the dialects have gone, and I regret that by a process which for want of a better name we have agreed among ourselves to call education, we are drifting away from the

language of the people and losing some of the best English words and phrases which have lasted in the country through centuries, to make us all talk one uniform and inexpressive language.

Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin

I often wonder if all the people in this country realise the inevitable changes that are coming over the industrial system in England…owing to the peculiar circumstances of my own life, I have seen a great deal of this evolution taking place before my own eyes. I worked for many years in an industrial business, and had under me a large number, or what was then a large number, of men…I was

probably working under a system that was already passing. I doubt if its like could have been found in any of the big modern industrial towns of this country, even at that time. It was a place where I knew, and had known from childhood, every man on the ground, a place where I was able to talk with the men not only about the troubles in the works, but troubles at home where strikes and lock-outs

were unknown. It was a place where the fathers and grandfathers of the men then working there had worked, and where their sons went automatically into the business. It was also a place where nobody ever "got the sack," and where we had a natural sympathy for those who were less concerned in efficiency than is this generation, and where a number of old gentlemen used to spend their days sitting on

the handle of a wheelbarrow, smoking their pipes. Oddly enough, it was not an inefficient community. It was the last survivor of that type of works, and ultimately became swallowed up in one of those great combinations towards which the industries of to-day are tending.

J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard

These people were the first to master a new type of late twentieth-century life, they thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed

Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun

It defaces every type of mental activity — history, art, politics, science and social reform.

William Bateson
William Bateson

Truer notions of genetic physiology are given by the Hebrew expression "seed". If we speak of a man as "of the blood-royal" we think at once of plebeian dilution, and we wonder how much of the royal fluid is likely to be "in his veins"; but if we say he is "of the seed of Abraham" we feel something of the permanence and indestructibility of that germ which can be divided and scattered among all

nations, but remains recognisable in type and characteristics after 4000 years.

Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard

Il faut constater que la croissance ne nous éloigne ni ne nous rapproche de l'abondance. Elle en est logiquement séparée par toute la structure sociale qui est ici l'instance déterminante. Un certain type de rapports sociaux et de contradictions sociales, un certain type d'« inégalités » qui se perpétuait jadis dans l'immobilisme se reproduit aujourd'hui dans et à travers la croissance.

Jacques Baugé-Prévost
Jacques Baugé-Prévost

Car l'adultération des peuples occidentaux par l'idée du profit, la notion d'égalité, le mensonge par omission, la médication, le confort moderne et le pacifisme-à-tout-prix a produit un double résultat: nos nations, en tant que telles, sont atteintes d'immobilisme et d'inconscience; mais aussi individuelllement, chacun de nous est soumis à un déracinement et à un métissage moral qui a

pour objet de faire de nous un cobaye "docile et bon marché"; prisonnier de ses vices, ses habitudes de robot, son imagination délirante. Cette adultération est un train de faire de nous, en tant qu'individus et en tant que nations, de minables scélérats, des hommes bruns, des peuples sans nom, matière première idéale pour un mondialisme de type termite.