Neil Kinnock famous quotes

07-15-2025

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Inspirational #Compassion #Sick
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Fall #Ordinary #Young
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Real #Fishing #Agony
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Country
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Party #Men #Careers
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
-- Neil Kinnock

#War #House #Able
Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Want #Unfairness #Ideology
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Funny #Humorous #Men
I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.
-- Neil Kinnock

#House #Decision #Reform
Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Jobs #School #Doctors
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
-- Neil Kinnock

#House #Paradise #Lord
We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Looks #Kind #Messiah
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Political #Intellectual #Way
Someone up there likes me.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Likes
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Party #Movement #Answers
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Ideas #Britain #Skeptic
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Vanity #Political #Killers
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Fighting #Hands #Rifles
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Liberty #Economic #Assets
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Smile #Missing #Teeth
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Differences #Making A Difference #Angry
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Fashion #Two #Half
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Enemy #Idealism #Zealotry
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Resistance #Stains
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Loyalty #Political #Quality
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
-- Neil Kinnock

#Revenge #Desire #Toxins

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