To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
George MikesYou can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George MikesBad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
George MikesJapan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.
George Mikes