"If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country."

-- Jonathan Meades

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.”
“AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them”
“Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?”
“Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
“People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”

Source : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books
“I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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