One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

He who despises a poor man’s wisdom has turned away great riches.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.