I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that. Use this quote
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. Use this quote
I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security. Use this quote
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life. Use this quote
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. Use this quote
I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was. Use this quote
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest. Use this quote
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. Use this quote
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. Use this quote
I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store. Use this quote
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. Use this quote
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. Use this quote
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. Use this quote
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. Use this quote
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Use this quote
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. Use this quote
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. Use this quote
I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. Use this quote
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? Use this quote
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first. Use this quote
