10 quotes found
“Look at this charming donkey!”
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.”
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.”
“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”
“However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.”
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shant embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something ...”
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and...”
“It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops...”
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. Th...”
“I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.”
