British Journalist Quotes

Only the working masses can change society; but they will not do that spontaneously, on their own. They can rock capitalism back onto its heels but they will only knock it out if they have the organisation, the socialist party, which can show the way to a new, socialist order of society. Such a party does not just emerge. It can only be built out of the day-today struggles of working people.

As I was saying when I was interrupted, it is a powerful hard thing to please all the people all the time.

We simultaneously disdain and covet American culture, condemning it as junk food, even as we reach for another helping – a kind of binge-and-puke social bulimia.

Jonathan Freedland

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

After the end of the Cold War, some governments have tended to forget Eastern Europe, allowing the new democracies to stew in the gelatinous leftovers of communism. But the peoples of the new democracies will not forget the West – Europe has become the most unstable continent in the world.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.

T. B. H. Stenhouse

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

Claudia Hammond

According to legend, Telford is so dull that the bypass was built before the town.

On the Midlands new-town

Victor Lewis-Smith

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

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

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.

In the dusk of a lane I met a shepherd with his sheep. A small dog with the expression of a professor of mathematics does all the work.

Henry Vollam Morton

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

Finding common ground between science and magic depends, of course, on how we define magic.

Roger Highfield

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

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.

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.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

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.

Melanie Phillips

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.