Home / Quotes / Quote by Clive Ponting

Quote by Clive Ponting

“...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.”

Quote by Clive Ponting

Author

Clive Ponting is a British writer, political activist, and former government official known for revealing secret government documents on climate change and nuclear energy issues. more

You May Also Like

“Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.”

House Century Late Debate Formal Bans Nineteenth Century House Of Commons

Book:Secrecy in Britain

Source: Secrecy in Britain

“...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.”

Body Fronts Presses Meetings Conservative Opening Despite Opposition Council 1960s Benches Admission Opening Up Backbenchers

Author:Clive Ponting

“Government exists only for the good of the governed.”

Author:Pythagoras

“I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.”

World Feels Whole Benefits Projects Western Bombs Resurrection Western World Neutrons

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years”

Years Wells Has Beens Economy Models Treasury

Author:William Rees-Mogg

“Christianity... is an Eastern religion.”

Christianity Eastern

Author:Tom Robbins

“There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.”

Way Knowing Torture

Author:Rumi

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”

Growing Up Growing Expression Empathy Mirrors Artificial Intelligence Artificial Robots Facial Neurons Quiver Facial Expression

Author:Diane Ackerman

“With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.”

“...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.”

Men Matter Serious

Book:Birth of Our Power

Source: Birth of Our Power