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.
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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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 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 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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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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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Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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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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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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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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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