Ideologies Have No Heart Of

Remember Graham Green's Dictum That Childhood Is The Bank Balance Of The Writer? I Think That All Writers Feel Alienated. Most Of Us Go Back To An Alienated Childhood In Some Way Or Another. I Know That I Do.

History Keeps Her Secrets Longer Than Most Of Us. But She Has One Secret That I Will Reveal To You Tonight In The Greatest Confidence. Sometimes There Are No Winners At All. And Sometimes Nobody Needs To Lose.

My Definition Of A Decent Society Is One That First Of All Takes Care Of Its Losers, And Protects Its Weak. What I See In My Country, Progressively Over These Years, Is That The Rich Have Got Richer, The Poor Have Got Poorer. The Rich Have Become Indifferent Through A Philosophy Of Greed, And The Poorer Have Become Hopeless Because They're Not Properly Cared For. That's Actually Something That Is Happening In Many Western Societies. Your Own, I Am Told, Is Not Free From It.

When The World Is Destroyed, It Will Be Destroyed Not By Its Madmen But By The Sanity Of Its Experts And The Superior Ignorance Of Its Bureaucrats.

For Better Or Worse, I've Been Involved In The Description Of Political Conflict.