Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.