Richard Holt Hutton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers that is not freedom of the press.
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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