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60 Diarist Quotes

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Moral difference Stealth bomber Suicide bomber Kill innocent
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Most things In life Pleasure Embarrassment
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Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Making mistakes Part Life Feel ashamed
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

All war Represent Failure Diplomacy
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Faith Something Die for Doctrine
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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Just here Manage Capitalism Change society
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My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

My day Rotates around My family Very lucky
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I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Not frightened About death Certain moment Switched off
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.

Two ways People Are controlled Frighten
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I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

See myself Old man Unqualified teacher Important thing
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

An educated Healthy Confident nation Harder
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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

I believe More difficult Circumstances People
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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

Can find Money Kill people Help
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

Made Every mistakes How You learn
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You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

You have Build support Around causes Uniting
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

Rescued Child From drowning Headline
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The crisis Power Occasion Fundamental change
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Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

Through talk Tamed kings Restrained tyrants Averted revolution
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I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world,because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Democracy Most revolutionary thing World Have power
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

Peace movement Biggest thing Human history
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Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
Hope Fuel Progress Fear
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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

Think Understand Democratic process Works
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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control of the media directly or indirectly.

One thing Absolutely essential Any government Control
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Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

Encouragement Important thing Young people League table
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

Final victory Final defeat Same battle Be fought
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

Give up Reality Dreams Relative knowledge
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

What sense Superiority Escape reading Some book
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I wonder An education A fool
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Must remember Woman By nature Feed upon
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

The success Failure Life Posterity goes
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Physical pain Great ends Fails away The mind
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

A rule Believe compliment Implicitly Five minute
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I have Productive worth Certain value Indestructible quantity
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Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

Poverty Experience Myself Stumble
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Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Try Fail
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This is the last of earth! I am content.

Last Earth Content
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

Believe Men Honest Worse
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet

Warrior Son Merchant Poet
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Courage Perseverance Obstacles
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Vote Principle Alone
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Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it

Posterity Cost Generation Freedom
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We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were

Understand Embrace
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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences

Perilous Experiment Consequences
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
Experiences Past Lessons Future
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Will People Happiness Government
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The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

Abuse Power Freedom Elections
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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

Wish Time Mind Pleasure
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

Purpose Christ's Earth Light
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Elections End Slavery Begins
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It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

Discover Faults Infirmities Amendment
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