Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

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.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.