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All Quotes Collection
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
72
"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race."
28
"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."
32
"I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be."
22
"Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us."
225
"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
52
"My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good."
37
"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible."
32
"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."
25
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
49
"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
48
"The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do."
40
"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."
38
"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage."
34
"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
48
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
46
"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine."
39
"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
47
"Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future."
37
"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."
38
"No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
38
"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
54
"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
43
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
46
"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
39
"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
56
"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
46
"Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege."
49
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