Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.