Quotes by Bernard Levin - Page 1

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.
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Firsts
Mad
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The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Foxes
Mentality
Stags
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The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
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Power
Desire
Exercise
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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Absurdity
Amount
Believe
Manifest
Believing
Deter
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It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Debt
Faults
Lenders
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In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Age
Men
Transition
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Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Cancer
Effort
Prevention
Tobacco
Begin
Naturally
Cancers
Efforts
One-Third
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Men
Political
Vagueness
Vote
However
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The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Metaphor
Patient
Results
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I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Childhood
Remember
Weather
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Architecture
War
Dog
Pain
Second World War
Contemplate
Equipped
Passers-By
Stick
World War
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Men
Bless
Blow
British
Noses
Prime Minister
Men World Will
Minister
Nobody Else
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Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Liberty
Poverty
Thinking
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If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Government
People
Self
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Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!
Bernard Levin / Journalist
Food
Children
Country
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