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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.
Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.
The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.
The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.
I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.
When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.
The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.
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
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once
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 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.
There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.
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
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.
You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
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
I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.
I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.
Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.