Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

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.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

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.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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.

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

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

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.

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Only what is essential must be said.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.