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Auberon Waugh Quotes
![The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/775/774616/774616.webp "The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever Picture Quote #1")
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Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff. (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
The main objection to killing people as a punishment... is that killing people is wrong (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don’t believe you or think that you’re being funny (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them (Auberon Waugh Quotes)
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored (Auberon Waugh Quotes)