We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

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.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do.""Is it? Even if you're a monster?

I just got pinned by a freakin' twelve year old.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.