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All Quotes Collection
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
97
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
40
"The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt."
38
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
44
"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
37
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
46
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
37
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
36
"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
41
"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."
44
"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
41
"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
37
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
46
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
78
"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."
35
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
55
"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."
31
"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
56
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
53
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
48
"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
70
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
72
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
48
"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
41
"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
39
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
44
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
32
"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
42
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
41
"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
53
"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
Will,
40
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
75
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
50
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
73
"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
Fate,
42
"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
40
"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
46
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
52
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