Neil Kinnock Professions : Former Leader of the Labour PartyBorn : March 28, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 49 quotes by Neil Kinnock Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer. Neil Kinnock sickcompassioninspirational The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished. Neil Kinnock paradiselordhouse I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old. Neil Kinnock youngordinaryfall I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me. Neil Kinnock arms-racelet-mecountry The enemy of idealism is zealotry. Neil Kinnock idealismidealsenemy They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow. Neil Kinnock bananasgangyellow We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership. Neil Kinnock ownershipsourceevil Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. Neil Kinnock labour-movementwarworld I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life. Neil Kinnock adultsexpertsadvice The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes. Neil Kinnock killersvanitypolitical 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. Neil Kinnock agonyrealfishing The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask. Neil Kinnock partyhistoricaltrouble I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born. Neil Kinnock eyedeathhands At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening. Neil Kinnock partyyearsthinking Someone up there likes me. Neil Kinnock likes Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. Neil Kinnock riflesfightinghands Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. Neil Kinnock toxinsrevengedesire Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit. Neil Kinnock halftruthtwo Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. Neil Kinnock wilsonpettyspirit No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons. Neil Kinnock majorityhousewar Similar Authors Michael Foot former-leader-of-the-labour-partyAll Authors
