No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

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.

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.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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

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

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.

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.

He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart.

Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Always give your customer something.

I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.