Julian Critchley quotes

“Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.”
-- Julian Critchley

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“Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.”
-- Julian Critchley

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“I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.”
-- Julian Critchley

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“She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.”
-- Julian Critchley

Source : Julian Critchley (1985). “Westminster Blues: Minor Chords”, Hamish Hamilton

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“As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.”
-- Julian Critchley

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“Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.”
-- Julian Critchley

Source : Julian Critchley (1987). “Heseltine”, A. Deutsch

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“Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.”
-- Julian Critchley

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“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”

“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”

“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.”

“I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.”

“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”

“One of my secrets is to joke all the time.”

“All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.”