“[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.”
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“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
“Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to.”
“I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.”
“O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."”
“Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.”
“Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'”
“If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.”
“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
“One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.”
“I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.”
“The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.”
“Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.”
“Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.”
“Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.”
“Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.”
“You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won't say. It's like Donald Trump.”
“Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”
“The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.”
“If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China, and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.”