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Former Leader Of The Labour Party Inspirational Quotes (49)

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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
Neil Kinnock
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Men of power have no time to read yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot
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The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.
Michael Foot
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We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.
Neil Kinnock
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[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
Neil Kinnock
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At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.
Neil Kinnock
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In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.
Michael Foot
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A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
Michael Foot
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You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
Michael Foot
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
Neil Kinnock
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It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot
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Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
Neil Kinnock
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That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
Neil Kinnock
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The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
Neil Kinnock
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Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
Michael Foot
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I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Neil Kinnock
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Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
Michael Foot
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I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.
Neil Kinnock
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New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Neil Kinnock
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People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
Michael Foot
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There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.
Michael Foot
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I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.
Neil Kinnock
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I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Michael Foot
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Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
Neil Kinnock
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