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.
PRINCE CHARLESIf 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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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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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There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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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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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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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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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 believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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