Bernard Levin Quotes

• Países como el nuestro están llenos de gente que tiene todas las comodidades materiales que desea, pero que lleva una vida de silenciosa (y a veces ruidosa) desesperación, sin comprender nada más que el hecho de que hay un agujero en su interior y que por mucha comida y bebida que viertan en él, por muchos coches y televisores con los que lo rellenen, por muchos hijos bien avenidos y amigos leales que hagan desfilar por sus bordes . ... ¡duele!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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• In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

  Bernard Levin

  Men, Age, Transition

  'The Pendulum Years' (1970) ch. 4

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• If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.

  Bernard Levin

  Gobierno, Ser, Personas

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• Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

  Bernard Levin

  Blow, Men, Noses

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• Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

  Bernard Levin

  Men, Political, Vagueness

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• I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

  Bernard Levin

  Weather, Childhood, Remember

  Bernard Levin (1984). “Enthusiasms”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

  Bernard Levin

  Thinking, Liberty, Poverty

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• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Bernard Levin

  Dog, Pain, War

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• Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

  Bernard Levin

  Mad, Firsts

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• It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

  Bernard Levin

  Debt, Faults, Lenders

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• The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

  Bernard Levin

  Exercise, Power, Desire

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• Ningún absurdo manifiesto... podría disuadir de creer a quienes quisieran creer.

  Bernard Levin

  Believe, Absurdity, Manifest

  Bernard Levin (1970). “Run it Down the Flagpole: Britain in the Sixties”

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• Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

  Bernard Levin

  Cancer, Effort, Prevention

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• The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

  Bernard Levin

  Patient, Metaphor, Results

  Bernard Levin (1986). “In these times”, Jonathan Cape

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• El ciervo en la bahía con la mentalidad de un zorro suelto.

  Bernard Levin

  Foxes, Stags, Mentality

  On Harold Macmillan; attributed

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