The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, 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.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.