When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

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.

It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it’s just cheap.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.