I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

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.

If only, we could stop taking our job as an OPPORTUNITY and work honestly as a DUTY, this world would be a much better, peaceful and loving place to live in.

What about mold, " Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.

After love, no one is what they were before.

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.