I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLESIt 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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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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