• Tony Benn

    If one meets a powerful person – Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler – one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does not live in a democratic system.

  • Kwesi Brew

    The Mesh

    We have come to the cross-roads
    And I must either leave or come with you.
    I lingered over the choice
    But in the darkness of my doubts
    You lifted the lamp of love
    And I saw in your face
    The road that I should take.

  • C S Lewis

    We are half-hearted creatures,
    fooling about with drink and sex and
    ambition when infinite joy is offered us,
    like an ignorant child who wants to go on
    making mud pies in a slum because he
    cannot imagine what is meant by the offer
    of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
    pleased.