Al Murray Quotes

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

I was raised as a red diaper baby.

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.

I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

I was always a player.

Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and not actually focusing [on scouting].

Don't try to watch two teams in one night. Focus on one team, and focus on five or six guys at first.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Nobody wants to proclaim, 'I changed the world with my inferior products.'

Life is vital and we should relax a little and enjoy it as we only have one life as far as I'm aware.

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

And all Niki really has to do now is coast

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.