“On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.”

Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.

May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.

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.

A week is a long time in politics.

One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

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.

From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.

We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …

The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

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.

I think that’s what happened to the record business when ‘Napster’ came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.

The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.