There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous.

What a tribute this is to art

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

Reality is blocked by form and image.