There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

Two years could change so much under the facade of changing nothing at all.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.