You know, we’re really destroying ourselves because we’re really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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Man’s idea of God, and a God’s collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

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You see that’s what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

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There is no truly global justice.

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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can’t help feeling the guy’s a good man.

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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it’ll happen more and more.

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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

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Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

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You know, we’re really destroying ourselves because we’re really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

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I’ve done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

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Isolationism is over.

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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

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