Hattersley Quotes

#1. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

#5. Clarity leads to attention and attention leads to results.

Henry Cloud

#6. You can start now and create a great future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Roy Hattersley

#8. 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.

Roy Hattersley

#9. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

Paulo Coelho

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

#12. The more we tune into our own frequency of love, the more love will spread.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#13. 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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

#16. If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

Dalai Lama

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Roy Hattersley