The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLESI find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
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I think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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