Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.