British Journalist Quotes

The EU violates just about every green principle going. It is the opposite of local; it is destructive to the natural world; it wipes out cultural distinctiveness; it is anti-democratic; it puts the interests of banks and corporations before the interests of its working people. Why – when – how – did the Green Movement abandon its commitment to localism and democracy, and jump into bed with a beast like this?

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world...

Im still very skeptical about the whole thing. The Laboratory (Châtenay-Malabry) is unscrupulous to say the least, because they shouldn't know the sample they're testing. The fact that the lab knew whose sample it was testing is just one of the anomolies It's time for the second test, the so-called B sample, be done in a second country by a second lab. I'm not saying the lab is a crooked lab, they have proved to us that they're not a particularly scrupulous lab. I got a feeling he's not telling lies.

Phil Liggett
Phil Liggett
Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour
Beyond are greens where pink chestnuts, may trees and copper beeches flaunt themselves gaily.

And have no doubt, the real purpose of the Earth Summit is to transfer your hard-earned cash to others who mostly have governments with even less of a clue how to conduct their affairs than we do.

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

O tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?

He was exceptionally aggressive. He said I would do anything to get on television. That's rubbish. The fact is that out of the 10 tasks we were given to do in the series I was on the winning side eight times.

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

Mrs Hickmann was inclined to forgive Patrick the apparent purposelessness of his life and the sinister pallor of his complexion, when she considered that he has an income of one hundred thousand pounds a year, and came from a family which, although it had done nothing since, had seen the Norman invasion from the winning side.

Methods Used
1. Marxist: You decide you're the vanguard of the proletariat and then you can do whatever you want because history will back you up.
2. Stoic: Stay very calm.
3. Positivist: Yes, I'm positive I want to rob this bank.

Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

Pornography is many things to many men. But it is never adult. Pornography exists in a state of perpetual adolescence... Planet porn is Disneyland for habitual monkey-spankers.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

To reform the House of Lords [in 1910] meant to set down in writing a Constitution which for centuries had remained happily unwritten, to conjure a great ghost into the narrow and corruptible flesh of a code.

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you miss the ordinary.

By the twentieth of April, the story was widely accepted and was viewed as one of the most heartening acts of bravery in the whole tragedy.

For the big-mouthed racist right, theirs is a rebellion in favour of order. For them, as in the 1930s, all variations – of gender, race or sexuality – have to be interpreted as the strong versus the weak. They love the theatre of the mass rally, where the charismatic leader – the magic helper, as Fromm called him – can browbeat them so hard with illogic, that when experts confront them with the facts it does not matter.

Paul Mason (journalist)
Paul Mason (journalist)
I had never 'taken a cutting' before... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.