Enoch Powell Professions : Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury Born : June 16, 1912 Died : February 8, 1998 Browse All Authors Top 50 quotes by Enoch Powell We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. Enoch Powell mad funeral growth It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No." Enoch Powell men mean believe As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood. Enoch Powell rivers blood looks Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States. Enoch Powell crazy self order I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism. Enoch Powell nazism born fighting Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. Enoch Powell sacrifice political self Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land. Enoch Powell land eye race A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. Enoch Powell media humble sea The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. Enoch Powell function supreme evil In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. Enoch Powell irony party stranger It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at. Enoch Powell drawing military europe All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. Enoch Powell affair cutting political I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down. Enoch Powell queens justice men I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. Enoch Powell betrayal weakness depth If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. Enoch Powell my-friends silence-is silence If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. Enoch Powell journey mean travel History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen. Enoch Powell witty war peace Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists. Enoch Powell political men past It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen. Enoch Powell funeral insane purpose I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful. Enoch Powell russia challenges years
