Ben Elton

“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma…

— Ben Elton

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

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We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly…

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“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance?…

— Ben Elton

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

— Ben Elton

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not…

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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw…

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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

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“New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British…

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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

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If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered…

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“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always…

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Live comedy is ?

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I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom…

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the…

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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I…

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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

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The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry,…

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