Christmas Quote by Auberon Waugh

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

“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

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

— Auberon Waugh

“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

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

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

“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

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

“...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

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

“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

“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