Roy Hattersley Quotes

Roy Hattersley offers sharp, candid thoughts on trust and authority that cut straight to the point.

15 quotes

1. Politicians, quite rightly, are not surrounded by mystique. Doctors, quite wrongly, too often are.

2. To a certain sort of half-wit, obscenities are testosterone turned into the spoken word.

3. Until Roy Hattersley said he would shoot himself if I became prime minister, I had not been able to see any possible advantage in standing.

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

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

6. Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

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

8. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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