Quotes & Sayings About Hailsham

You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we were able to do that principally by sheltering you. Hailsham would not have been Hailsham if we hadn't. Very well, sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you, I suppose you could even call it that. But we sheltered you during those years, and we gave you your childhoods. Lucy was well-meaning enough. But if she'd have her way, your happiness at Hailsham would have been shattered. Look at you both now! I'm so proud to see you both. You built your lives on what we gave you. You wouldn't be who you are today if we'd not protected you. You wouldn't have become absorbed in your lessons, you wouldn't have lost yourselves in your art and your writing. Why should you have done, knowing what lay in store for each of you? You would have told us it was all pointless, and how could we have argued with you? So she had to go. — Kazuo Ishiguro

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power. — Lord Hailsham

It was his reaction when I mention I was from Hailsham. He'd just come through his third donation, it hadn't gone well, and he must have known he wan't going to make it. He could hardly breathe, but he looked towards me and said: "Hailsham. I bet that was a beautiful place. — Kazuo Ishiguro

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. — Lord Hailsham

With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.] — Harold Wilson

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. — Lord Hailsham

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty. — Lord Hailsham

Make no mistake about it, my child, Marie-Claude is on your side and will always be on your side. Is she afraid of you? We're all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you all almost every day I was at Hailsham. There were times I'd look down at you all from my study window and I'd feel such revulsion ... — Kazuo Ishiguro

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. — Lord Hailsham

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable. — Lord Hailsham

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. — Lord Hailsham

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham

I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that
little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time
like somehow we were letting the side down. — Kazuo Ishiguro

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin. — Lord Hailsham

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. — Lord Hailsham

If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations. — Kazuo Ishiguro

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up. — Kazuo Ishiguro

A lot of the time, how you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at "creating." Ruth — Kazuo Ishiguro

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. — Lord Hailsham