"Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the…"

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

"Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs."

"They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot."

"Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery."

"Policy doesn't advance in a vacuum."

"Policy is rather like the elephant – you recognise it when you see it but cannot easily define it."

""Policy" is the negation of politics; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of elite, which presum…"

"[Policy] is like a play in many acts, which unfolds inevitably once the curtain is raised. To declare then that the p…"

"Upholding human rights should underpin all policymaking."