I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.