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Politics is a blood sport.
Virtue is its own punishment.
This is my truth, tell me yours.
Advertising is 'an evil service'.
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
We need people like me in the Labour party.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.