When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

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.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

Pride and love can't live in the same heart

The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.