There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

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.

Don’t blame any one, including you. There is something called destiny.

To find yourself, get lost for others.

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.

Keep your eyes open to all the needs you see around you.

Trifles make the sum of life.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.