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.
PRINCE CHARLESAs human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
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It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
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My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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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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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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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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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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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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The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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