“Necessity, now there's a word to feed every outrage on decency.”

“Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.”

“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”

“When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.”

“Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.”

“Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.”

“The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.”

“We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.”

“Has that line ever worked for anyone?”
“I’m not feeding you lines. I mean every word.”
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“Day One of my life was the day I met you.”
“Okay, that’s a winner. You can put it in.”

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”