#roy

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. ↗

— Michael Foot

#commission #egg #hen #royal #sitting

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#complete #destroys #family #people #people say

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#people #royalty

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. ↗

— Billy Graham

#becomes #church #destroy #hours #human

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. ↗

— Richard Harris

#away #brought #cocoon #completely #custom

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. ↗

— Max Hastings

#doubt #early #family #felt #had