Michael Foot Quotes

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

  Michael Foot

  Reading, Men, He Man

  Michael Foot (1980). “Debts of Honour”, London : Davis Poynter

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• Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

  Michael Foot

  Party, Criticism, Debate

  Tribune, 1954.

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• Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

  Michael Foot

  Derecho, Pueblo, Libertad

  Interview, 1980.

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• Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

  Michael Foot

  World, Littles, Imagine

  "Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society".

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• He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

  Michael Foot

  Política

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• En mi opinión, el marxismo es un gran credo de liberación humana. Es el credo que dice que cuando todos los demás imperios se desvanezcan y desaparezcan, nuestro negocio es ampliar el imperio de la mente humana.

  Michael Foot

  Mind, Empires, Opinion

  Morning Star, 1980.

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• Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

  Michael Foot

  Apology, Socialism, Fantastic

  The Daily Herald, 1956.

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• People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

  Michael Foot

  Party, People, Want

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• The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

  Michael Foot

  Men, Sound, Curse

  1962 Of Aneurin Bevan. Aneurin Bevan 1897-1945, vol.1.

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• La gente debe aprender cada vez más que la fuerza de este país es el poder democrático del movimiento sindical.

  Michael Foot

  Country, People, Movement

  Morning Star, 1976.

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• It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

  Michael Foot

  Country, Past, Rights

  Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

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• I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

  Michael Foot

  Party, People, Favour

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• There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

  Michael Foot

  Views, Essentials, Debate

  The Daily Telegraph, 1977.

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• How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?

  Michael Foot

  Long, Judging, Cry

  Michael Foot's speech at the Scottish Miners' Gala in Edinburgh (attacking the National Industrial Relations Court and its President, Sir John Donaldson), June 3, 1972.

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• Todo vale en el amor, en la guerra y en el procedimiento parlamentario.

  Michael Foot

  Tattoo, War, Wonderful Love

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• I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

  Michael Foot

  Strong, Party, Want

  BBC's "Panorama", March 22, 1976.

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• Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

  Michael Foot

  Thinking, Selected, Chamber

  'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88

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• Al parecer, los miembros de nuestro servicio secreto han pasado tanto tiempo debajo de la cama buscando comunistas que no han tenido tiempo de mirar dentro de la cama.

  Michael Foot

  Secret, Bed, Looks

  Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.

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• No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

  Michael Foot

  Leader, Political, Rising

  Michael Foot's remarks on Tony Blair, 1995.

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• There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

  Michael Foot

  Attitude, Law, Judging

  ITV's "People and Politics", May 9, 1974.

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• Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

  Michael Foot

  Simple, Favourite, Gladstone

  "Michael Foot: key quotes" by Richard Nelsson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

  Michael Foot

  Fathers Day, Fatherhood, Taught

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• You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

  Michael Foot

  Unemployment, Wages, Economics

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• Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

  Michael Foot

  Party, Sight, World

  Michael Foot (1980). “Debts of Honour”, London : Davis Poynter

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