department quotes

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

- SirAlfred Jules Ayer
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

News, Opinion and Advertisment must all come under the head of Entertainment to a reasonable extentor they will not be read.People do not read to be bored. Unless a newspaper can make its material in every department interesting it simply is not read.

-Baron
Publicity handout for the Daily Express, quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.8.

Now,Watson, the fair sex is your department.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Return of Sherlock Holmes,'The Second Stain'.

While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

-Joseph R(aymond) McCarthy
  Speech at  Wheeling, West Virginia, 9 Feb, which marked the beginning of the McCarthy 'witch hunts' for communists.

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

-WilliamThomas Stead
  Of a newspaper.'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

- Andy Warhol
  America.