Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
BEN ELTONI think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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