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Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.


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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.



The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.



If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.



I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.



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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.



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The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.



We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism



The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.



I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft



The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.





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The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.



I was there for every moment. It made me a better woman and a better person. I can't say that all the damage done by my original family doesn't still haunt me

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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.



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We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins



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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word "human" is "sympathetic." More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.



Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.



If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.



Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!



Destroying things is much easier than making them.

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