The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLESThe less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLESTo get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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.
PRINCE CHARLESTo 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.
PRINCE CHARLESDo you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
PRINCE CHARLESThe whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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.
PRINCE CHARLESThere 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.
PRINCE CHARLESAll 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.
PRINCE CHARLESThis 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.
PRINCE CHARLESFast 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.
PRINCE CHARLESWe 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.
PRINCE CHARLESAny 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.
PRINCE CHARLESI 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 CHARLESA 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.
PRINCE CHARLESWe 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.
PRINCE CHARLES