Tony Banks, Baron Stratford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.
-- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford

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We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes â€“ something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean huntersâ€™ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Tony Banks, Baron Stratford famous quotes

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