"I think it is very difficult to legislate…" — Ben Elton

"I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality."

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37 Quotes by Ben Elton

Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word…
I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they…

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