The Price of Freedom

The price of freedom should not be paid for with the blood of the young.

Trust

There is no shame in trusting someone on occasions, sometimes trust is necessary to get things done.

Insects

Never trust insects.

Fish

It is unwise to cook fish on a plane.

History

You can no more change history, than you can disinvent the atomic bomb.

Prisoners

We are all prisoners.

Those who realise it, suffer the most.

Change Managers

Beware the Change Manager, he is in effect an overpaid consultant brought in by ineffective management unable and unwilling to do their jobs.

Advice To Diplomats

When putting together a breakthrough diplomatic deal, that involves the transfer of money, make sure that you communicate your plan to the banks involved first.

Advice To Airlines

Develop an effective method of frying an egg.

Sacrifice

Only through struggle and sacrifice can we come to know our true selves, and recognise who our true friends really are.

Evil

Evil casts its shadow on the world in many forms.

Beware the neatly packaged soundbite financed by wealthy oligarchs, keen to impose their view of the perfect world order on their fellow human beings.

Core Values

Those Republicans that claim to hold the party's and country's core values of freedom of speech and action dear, yet advocate repression and bigotry should be spurned as one would spurn a rabid dog.

Patriots

Those that claim to be patriots protecting their country, yet advocate restrictions on freedom of choice and lifestyles, are the public face of an evil and oppressive cabal, that should be eradicated like a plague.

The Future

The future is the undiscovered country, so easily lost lost in the fog of political intrigue and deception.

The Future

Mankind lives for the future, in the belief that the future is the undiscovered country.

Yet those that rule us, choose to indulge themselves in the pleasures of the present.

Firewalls

Firewalls make you look foolish.

Schadenfreude

Why waste time trying to pronounce, or spell this word, when in fact you mean "gloating".

Advice To Politvcal Fall Guys

When your boss hangs you out to dry in court, drop him and his superiors in it by revealing every shabby detail of their corrupt behaviour that you know.

You have nothing to lose.

Advice To World Leaders

In the event that you talk to God, it is best not to tell anyone. Otherwise the voters might just ask you if God answers back.

Your answer, might make you look rather foolish or mentally unstable.

Advice To Foreign Journalists

When seeking to conduct an interview, try to remember that the world is divided into different time zones.

Leaders Who Cry Wolf

Those leaders whose claims of threats and enemies, which turn out to be fabrications and lies, end up losing their credibility and authority.

Accusations

Never publicly accuse someone of being unethical or conducting illegal activities if you don't have firm evidence to back up your claim, that will withstand close scrutiny.

The costs of making false accusations can be immeasurable.

Queues

Why waste time queuing, when you can pay someone else to queue for you?