Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. — Paul Johnson Courage Copy Share Image
If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting. — Paul Johnson Delight Copy Share Image
“He believed he had a unique love for humanity and had been endowed with unprecedented gifts and insights to increase its felicity.” — Paul Johnson Love Copy Share Image
“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain?… — Paul Johnson Christian church Copy Share Image
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts. — Paul Johnson Along Copy Share Image
“The whole stress of Washington’s presidency, underlined by his farewell, was on the absolute necessity to obey the Constitution. As he said… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Dissatisfied Copy Share Image
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the… — Paul Johnson Anti semitism Copy Share Image
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Acknowledge Copy Share Image
I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib. — Paul Johnson Cut Copy Share Image
“When I surrender to prolonged entreaties to accept an offer, repeated over and over again, I do so for the sake of… — Paul Johnson Peace Copy Share Image
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. — Paul Johnson Family Copy Share Image
“In particular, I want to focus on the moral and judgmental credentials of intellectuals to tell mankind how to conduct itself. How… — Paul Johnson Character Copy Share Image
“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the… — Paul Johnson Jacques rousseau Copy Share Image
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over… — Paul Johnson Ability Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond,… — Paul Johnson Attack Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson Age Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson Accepted Copy Share Image
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson Between Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Any Copy Share Image
“Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash… — Paul Johnson Character Copy Share Image
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people,… — Paul Johnson Activities Copy Share Image
In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world ,… — Paul Johnson Caught Copy Share Image
Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'. — Paul Johnson Beautiful Copy Share Image
