Politics is a blood sport.

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.

Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.

A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy.

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.