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.
HAROLD WILSONEverybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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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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[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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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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.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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