Rory Stewart quotes

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.' (Rory Stewart)
September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves. View quote
Rory Stewart
I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow. View quote
Rory Stewart
If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many. View quote
Rory Stewart
In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition. View quote
Rory Stewart
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty. View quote
Rory Stewart
The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority. View quote
Rory Stewart