The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

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.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

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.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.