Prince Charles Quotes

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  • Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

  • I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

  • It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

  • There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

    "Prince Charles shocked by 'tragedy' of flood failures on Somerset visit" by Steven Morris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.
  • All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

  • I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

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  • If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

    "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.
  • . . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

  • One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

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  • It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

  • You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 1 Dec. 1987
  • If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

  • Boy, the things I do for England.

  • It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet

  • The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

  • Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.

    "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.
  • The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

  • To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

  • Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

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  • I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

  • I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

    "Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby boy, third in line to the throne" by Caroline Davies and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2013.
  • Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.

  • I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

  • We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

    "Prince's plea over climate change". news.bbc.co.uk. October 27, 2005.
  • Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

  • I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.

    "The Prince of Wales: Full text of replies in radio debut". "The Times" Newspaper, March 3, 1969.
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