Sir Humphrey Appleby resume assim o pensamento sobre política cultural da esquerda e da direita:
"Bernard, subsidy is for art...for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want, it is for what the people don't want but ought to have."
Liberdade
"Bernard, subsidy is for art...for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want, it is for what the people don't want but ought to have."