"Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?"

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Source : Tribune, 1954.

Michael Foot

#Party Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Debate Quotes

“In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.”
“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?”
“I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.”
“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc
“We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.”
“Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.”
“The rules are what make us better.”

Source : "24: Day 7: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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