Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh was an English author and journalist, son of Evelyn Waugh.
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- Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
- "The Power Urge," essay in The Spectator (15 December, 1982); reprinted in Another Voice (1986)