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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society…

- Roy Hattersley

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley