The important thing to remember is that this is not a new form of life. It is just a new activity. - Esther Dyson (On Internet in 1996)

I have to come to regard the Law Courts not as a cathedral, but as a casino. - Richard Ingrams

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. - Rebecca West

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. - Lyndon Baines Johnson

Countries like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. It is why you fight more wars than anyone else; because you understand war least of all. You need to understand it better. - Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realise truth. - Pablo Picasso

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. - Jeremy Paxman

Those who stand for nothing fall for nothing. - Alex Hamilton

Keeping books on charity is capitalist nonsense! I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it. - Eva Perón

Ignorance of the law excuses no man, not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. - John Selden

My history is your picnic ground. - Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde