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.
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
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
A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
Making mistakes is how you learn.
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm not a dentist myself, but my father was a dentist and his father before him. Now, open wide!
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free
There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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 Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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