Roy Hattersley quotes
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“The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.”
-- Roy HattersleySource : The Independent, July 21, 1989.
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“Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.”
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“One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.”
-- Roy HattersleySource : Roy Hattersley's remarks at the House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. December 17, 1990.
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“Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.”
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“In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.”
-- Roy HattersleySource : Evening Standard, May 9, 1989.
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“Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.”
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“People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.”
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“The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.”
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“Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.”
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“A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought”
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“Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.”
-- Roy HattersleySource : The Guardian, September 30, 1988.
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“I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.”
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“We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.”
-- Roy HattersleySource : "Faith does breed charity" by Roy Hattersley, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2005.
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“I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament”
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“In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.”
-- Roy HattersleySource : "Maxwell: The Outsider". Book by Tom Bower, 1988.
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