It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from… — 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
