#roy

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#cause #constant #existence #family #fine

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#destroy #directly #fact #however #mankind

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#destroy #him #indifference #kind #life

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. ↗

— Angela Carter

#aged #back #carried #even #father

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#challenge #cold #cold war #confronted #could

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#certainly #come #fortune #grateful #i

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#around #beautiful #completely #degrading #destroy

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#eventually #fear #hate #hater #others

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#century #changed #civilization #communist #completely