Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
CLEMENT ATTLEEMan’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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The press lives on disaster.
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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