Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly...

Sense Politics

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

- Ben Nicholson

Quote of the Day

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by Ben Nicholson

Soul

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

- Ben Nicholson

Work

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

- Ben Nicholson

Want

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

- Ben Nicholson

Architecture Vision

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

- Ben Nicholson

Years

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

- Ben Nicholson

Ideas Thinking

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

- Ben Nicholson

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

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We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics.

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