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.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Politics is a blood sport.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
This is my truth, tell me yours.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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.