I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

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.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

Nothing is impossible, you simply just have to believe it.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.