Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.