We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology. - Michael Foot
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
- Michael Foot
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party. - Michael Foot
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. - Michael Foot
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"? - Michael Foot
How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. - Michael Foot
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law. - Michael Foot
Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress. - Michael Foot
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
People can say what they want in the Labour Party. - Michael Foot
People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is … - Michael Foot
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is …
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