Quotes from Jean Ure

He said that there was no reason to suppose that good would come out of evil: society couldn't be expected to mature overnight just because there had been a catastrophe. In fact, probably just the opposite would happen. He said that when there were shortages people always fought and became aggressive.

It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

That was the simple truth: he just couldn't be bothered.

Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.

I've noticed that in films about holocausts and disasters and such it's always a young girl and an old man, right at the end, who have to get together for the sake of the future. I don't think I could do that, not with an old man, though maybe I could if it was all there was.

Let me tell you that male aggression is something we cannot afford to have unleashed upon the world a second time! Men cannot control their baser instincts. They have to be controlled for us. The power of the male is a force for evil, bringing destruction on the world.

His mother hadn't know what Durex was. But she had suspected. She had asked him, gravely, if it was 'anything bad'. Useless trying to explain. Useless, subsequently, trying to convince his father that he was only acting like a responsible citizen.

Every day there were reports of women being raped or mutilated, sometimes even in their own homes. Nothing was done to prevent it on account of the governments being mostly men.

They did not say it was a punishment on womankind. This was because men were the rulers and women had to suffer for their sins.)

He had never hit a woman in his life, but there were some women who asked for it.

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

A people, Dr Alison had said, should be judged by the way they treated those weaker than themselves.

What would it have mattered? What does any of it matter? You don't have to look at me like that! I'm not mad! I know what's going on . . . we'd all of us be better dead!' There was a long silence; then Shahid, grimly, said: 'I expect, very soon, we all shall be.

If one knew there would be enough then one wouldn't grab. That was another thing that was bad about the way we used to be. It was all grab grab grab while one could in case tomorrow one couldn't.)

But basing a whole philosophy of life on what you would do in extremis does not seem to me to be right.

You never knew when condoms might come in handy . . . you could blow them up like balloons and tie messages to them, or fill them with water, or roll them on to your fingers and use them as fingerstalls. He didn't really foresee any possibility of their being put to the purpose for which they were intended.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour".

History was always about men. A strange and wasteful arrangement, to have had so many of them, when a few were all that was needed. No wonder the world had nearly destroyed itself.

Bloody right I feel I'm entitled to express an opinion! What's going on here is a crime against humanity! What the hell do these women think they're playing at? Trying to rewrite history? Make it into her-story?

Where would you intellectuals be without us lower grade morons to lead you around? Totally lost, that's where!

Making love in a mask . . . a real turn-on that would be.

I don't want to be intelligent! I want to enjoy myself.

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

If he had a particle of sense he would send her packing right here and now. His mother always had said that girls would be the death of him.