Roy Hattersley Quotes

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

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

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#3. I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

Jean Craighead George

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

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

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#6. 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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#7. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen R. Covey

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

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

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

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

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#13. 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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#14. Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake

#15. I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves
and that is the real risk.

Steve Young

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

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#18. Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.

Norman Mailer

#19. Fighting is in my very bones. I don't have any fancy, noble reason like anger at my fate. I'm just like a gamecock that launches itself into battle after meaningless battle. I like fighting. That's why I can't stop.

Nahoko Uehashi

#20. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Pascal Mercier

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

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