Roy Hattersley Quotes

#1. I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

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#2. In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

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#3. The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

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#4. Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

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#5. The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

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#6. One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

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#7. Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

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#8. A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ... it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

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#9. Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

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#10. I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

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#11. In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

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#12. Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

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#13. People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

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#14. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

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#15. We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

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