Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

I feel overestimated.

Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?