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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. — Ben Elton

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators — Ben Elton

You think I look like a teletubby? — Ben Elton

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join. — Ben Elton

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous. — Ben Elton

The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down. — Ben Elton

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past. — Ben Elton

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. — Ben Elton

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. — Ian Axel

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume. — Ben Elton

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous. — Ben Elton

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do. — Ben Elton

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. — Ben Elton

What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4. — Ben Elton

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. — Ben Elton

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been. — Ben Elton

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them. — Ben Elton

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. — Ben Elton

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing. — Ben Elton

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it. — Ben Elton

So far no one has claimed responsibility. — Ben Elton

And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her. — Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. — Ben Elton

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap. — Ben Elton

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence. — Ben Elton

What the matter wit' your momma? She only know one name?' Stone — Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. — Ben Elton

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality. — Ben Elton

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed — Ben Elton

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother. — Ben Elton

Artists don't create society, they reflect it — Ben Elton

Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When — Ben Elton

My parents were secular. I am an atheist. — Ben Elton

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves — Ben Elton

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish. — Ben Elton

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring. — Ben Elton

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund — Ben Elton

[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance. — Ben Elton

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. — Ben Elton