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

- 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

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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley

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

- Roy Hattersley