You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
PRINCE CHARLESAll the time I feel I must justify my existence.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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I 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.
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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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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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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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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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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 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.
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All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end environmentally and everywhere else for the food that is produced in a particular way.
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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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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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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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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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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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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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Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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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 believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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