Douglas Hurd Quotes

• Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

  Douglas Hurd

  People, Way, Prison

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• Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

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  Knee Jerk Reactions, Knees, Sound

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• People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

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  Spiritual, People, Kind

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• Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

  Douglas Hurd

  Gossip, Silence, Sin

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• If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

  Douglas Hurd

  Prime, Ministers, Treaties

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• War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

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  Correr, Guerra, Irak

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• People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

  Douglas Hurd

  Personas

  Interview with Rhian Harris, cherwell.org. May 15, 2008.

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• Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Europe, Germany, Economic

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• History provides no precise guidelines.

  Douglas Hurd

  Guidelines, Precise

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• But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

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  Character, Suffering, Germany

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• There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

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  Past, Ideas, Understanding

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• We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

  Douglas Hurd

  Favour, Politician, Should

  "Escaping from History". Speech in Berlin, www.kas.de. April 18, 2005.

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• Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

  Douglas Hurd

  People, Arguing, Ministers

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• Nosotros, Gran Bretaña y Alemania, no podemos estar contentos de nuestra gestión de la guerra de Irak.

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  Guerra, Irak, Alemania

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• Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

  Douglas Hurd

  Giving, Tools, Slave

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• Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

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  Men, Action, Justified

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• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

  Douglas Hurd

  Iraq, Spurs, Might

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• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

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  Growing Up, Years, Europe

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• Es normal que los políticos de todos los países se profesen alumnos de la historia, ansiosos por extraer las lecciones adecuadas de sus enseñanzas.

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  Country, Teaching, Lessons

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• We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

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  Past, Judgment, Enjoyable

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• Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

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  Downing Street, Office, House

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• Ningún calendario militar debería obligar a la guerra cuando un resultado satisfactorio, a saber, un Iraq desarmado, puede ser factible sin guerra, por ejemplo concediendo más tiempo a los inspectores de la ONU.

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  Militar, Guerra, Éxito

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• The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

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  Europe, America, Leaving

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• There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

  Douglas Hurd

  War, Rights, Agreement

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