Roy Hattersley Quotes

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

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

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.