May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff shrinks would say. I was eight and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

We are free but not to be evil not to be indifferent to human suffering not to profit from the people from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.