242 Quotes by Christopher Hill

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.' It is a thought worth pondering by those who read books about the seventeenth-century radicals, no less than by those who write them. Were you doers or talkers only? Bunyan asked his generation. What canst thou say?

The issue of getting rid of nuclear weapons should be an obvious one, should be an easy one,

We'd like to see if we can get to an agreement, and we're not there yet. No one is quite ready to say we can't get there.

We are looking forward to getting things going as scheduled, ... What we really have to do is ... identify the way forward and see how the principles will actually work in practice.

We do everything we can to bridge the remaining differences, and try to find a solution to this. And we are very much getting the ending.

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

We want to make demonstrable progress in the next few weeks,