Ferdinand Mount Quotes

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

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  Literature, Freedom Of The Press, Free Press

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• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

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  Character, Court Judges, Judging

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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

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  Literature, Way, Existence

  Ferdinand Mount (2010). “Subversive Family”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

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  Government, Consistency, Quality

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• If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

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  Life, Made, Ifs

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

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  Thinking, People, Meaning Of Life

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

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  Men, Tangled, Fool

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• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

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  Real, Literature, Earning

  "Mind the Gap" by Ferdinand Mount, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2004.

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• I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

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  Hate, Silence, Church

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

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  Men, Self Worth, Law

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• What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

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  Letting Go, People, Giving

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• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

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  Iraq, President, Doe

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• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

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  Errors, People, Stubborn

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• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

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  America, Literature, Way

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• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

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  Party, Thinking, Government

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• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

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  Iraq, White, House

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• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

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  Writing, Taking A Break, Columns

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• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Equality, Literature

  "Mind the Gap". Book by Ferdinand Mount, 2004.

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• Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

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  Transition, Transformation, British

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• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

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  Unique, Doubt, Literature

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• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

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  Constitution, Accepted, Symmetrical

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• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

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  America, People, Lasts

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• I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

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