Roy Hattersley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Wisdom #Islamic #Ifs And
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Acceptance #Evil #Suffering
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Thinking #Punishment #Prevention
Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Country #Government #People
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Political #Politics #Ridiculous
Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Europe #Socialism #Labour
People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Morning #Elderly #People
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Party #Next #Election
Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Loyalty #Heart #Blue
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

#Intellectual #Battle #Argument
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Pregnancy #Morality #Expediency
I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Party #Fighting #Bitter
We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Atheist #Accepting #Believer
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
-- Roy Hattersley

#Party #Years #Odd
In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
-- Roy Hattersley

#Men #Opinion #Newspapers

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