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Auberon Waugh
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“Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair while letting the multitude go scot-free. Pilate did what little he could to dissuade them from the extremely unpleasant course of action on which they were set, but the multitude kept shouting for a crucifixion. Pilate could not have done more without provoking a riot. The crucifixion when it happened was a victory for direct democracy against the effete, liberal paternalism of Pilate.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Country Topics: Essays (London: Michael Joseph, 1974), "How My Speech Saved the Village", p. 96
“It has long been a characteristic of 'progressives' in power that they are prepared to countenance almost any aberration on the progressive side but crack down like grand inquisitors on the slightest expression of conservative deviation.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More Catholic than the Pope", Another Voice, The Spectator, 7 August 1976
“Pope Paul has always struck me as resembling Mr Heath in his extraordinary capacity for remaining rock-like and unbadgeable on every issue where common sense and prudence require him to bow before the prevailing wind, while bowing like a Japanese lavatory attendant before puffs of breeze which others would not even have noticed.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Power Urge", essay in The Spectator (15 December 1982); reprinted in Another Voice (1986), p. 92
“I am convinced that intelligent educated and literate men in Britain are neither left-wing or right-wing, but are bored by politics and regard all politicians with scorn. That is my political creed, so far as I have one.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Introduction and Guide' to Another Voice (1986), p. 14
“Of the two crises facing us this Christmas — the caviare crisis and the Gulf crisis — I must admit finding the caviare crisis the more immediate. Many people — including children — are actually having to do without any caviare at all this Christmas.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (24 December 1990), p. 23
“Murder does not rank as a scandal, in the way that financial impropriety or (to a lesser extent) sexual misbehaviour might. Murder is more of a misfortune, part of the American way of life. It is considered in bad taste to bring up the subject in conversation.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (28 October 1995).
“Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (1 November 1995).
“There is no such thing as a normal human being. Nobody looks so eccentric as the man who is trying to look normal.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (6 November 1995).
“The price of privilege is eternal vigilance.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Will This Do? (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), ch. 6, p. 94
“Religion was inevitably going to contract into a small nucleus of enthusiasts, and all they've achieved is to change the enthusiasts; the new enthusiasts happen to be the ones who like clapping their hands and looking soppy. They repel me.”
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Naim Attallah, Singular Encounters (1990), "Auberon Waugh