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My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. — Auberon Waugh

It is impossible to be angry for very long with a man who wears a wig. — Auberon Waugh

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law — Auberon Waugh

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff. — Auberon Waugh

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. — Anita Shreve

At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it. — Auberon Waugh

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. — Auberon Herbert

I've never been good at improvising. — Terry Jones

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. — Auberon Herbert

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity. — Jody Dean

By what right do men exercise power over each other? — Auberon Herbert

The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me ... I always knew that some day I should defy it. — John Christie

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations. — Stan Lee

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. — Luigi Ghirri

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. — Auberon Waugh

He looked like the victim of a forceps delivery. — Auberon Waugh

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved. — Steven Furtick

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? — Auberon Herbert

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well. — Izumi Shikibu

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force. — Auberon Herbert

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. — Albert Einstein

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. — Auberon Herbert

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one. — Auberon Waugh

I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when less art was produced. — Auberon Waugh

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his. — John Crowley

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. — Rick Santorum

The price of privilege is eternal vigilance. — Auberon Waugh

If you don't like where you are, change it. You're not a tree. — Jim Rohn

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. — Auberon Herbert

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. — J.D. Greear

I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort. — Auberon Waugh

Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked. — Auberon Waugh

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. — Auberon Herbert

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny. — Auberon Waugh

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist. — Auberon Waugh

I will never fit in because I was not meant to — Cher Lloyd

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. — Auberon Herbert

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. — Auberon Herbert

Joy is a gift of life, so fill your life with joy and then give it away. — Debasish Mridha

The main objection to killing people as a punishment ... is that killing people is wrong — Auberon Waugh

My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow ... — Auberon Waugh

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie. — Auberon Waugh

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them. — Auberon Waugh