The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Inside a dark well, everyman's favourite colour is blue!

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.