John Hampden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think theyâ€™re the most amazing people in the world. And thatâ€™s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible...

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