Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Esther Rantzen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English journalist Esther Rantzen.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Esther Rantzen

Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes, and founded the charities ChildLine, promoting child protection, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012.

Nobody ever feels rich. — © Esther Rantzen
Nobody ever feels rich.
I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.
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