The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO… — auberon waugh Copy Share Image
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“...the modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink...accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism,… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of political advancement… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
![“The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a…” quote by Auberon Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a82/auberon-waugh-13554_appropriate_the-urge-to-pass-new-laws-must-be-seen-a_2920019.jpg)
