It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Gunther Grass

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Stephen Hunter

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!

Virgil, Aeneid, The

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

We need proof in our society.

Shirley MacLaine

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Helen Clark

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Samuel Johnson

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Lord Longford