"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."

"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world."

"I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias."

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."

"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."

"The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain."

"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."

"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."

"Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence."