In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It’s also the only privatized system.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

Work alone is noble.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The world is too violent right now.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

War is what happens when language fails.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

In time of war the laws are silent.

I got my own back.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?