Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.