I Don't Like Seeing People

I Regard Myself As A Religious... The Temper Of My Mind As Religious, And Because I Regard The Temper Of My Mind As Religious, I Am Profoundly Skeptical About Any Form Of Human Authority, Any Form Of Human Self-importance.

I Think Winston Churchill Is An Appallingly Bad Politician, And Always Has Been, That He Hung Onto Power Long After He Should Have Done, And That His Post-war Administration Was A Disaster.

I Think That In Free Societies, And We're Constantly Talking About Living In Free Societies, Aren't We, In Contradiction With Unhappy People Who Live In Non-free Societies, That The Benefit, The Dividend Of Living In A Free Society Is That You Say What You Think.

A Ready Means Of Being Cherished By The English Is To Adopt The Simple Expedient Of Living A Long Time. I Have Little Doubt That If, Say, Oscar Wilde Had Lived Into His Nineties, Instead Of Dying In His Forties, He Would Have Been Considered A Benign, Distinguished Figure Suitable To Preside At A School Prize-giving Or To Instruct And Exhort Scout Masters At Their Jamborees. He Might Even Have Been Knighted.

The English Have This Extraordianry Respect For Longevity. The Best Example Of This Was Queen Victoria, A Most Unpleasant Woman Who Achieved A Sort Of Public Affection Simply By Living To Be An Enormous Age.