"It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can"

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Source : "Hull Daily Mail" Newspaper, March 2, 1936.

Stafford Cripps

#Empires Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Socialism Quotes

“All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.”
“It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”
“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”
“I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.”
“Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.”
“What is now in the past was once in the future”

Source : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
“I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.”
“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”

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