We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
HAROLD WILSONEverybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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If we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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