I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. Enoch Powell More Quotes by Enoch Powell More Quotes From Enoch Powell People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles. Enoch Powell troublemistakepeople No battle is worth fighting except the last one. Enoch Powell casinosbattlefighting Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed. Enoch Powell transcendentalrealmsspace I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin. Enoch Powell citizensdifferencescountry A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life. Enoch Powell governmentwould-bemean Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. Enoch Powell mediainspirationallife As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive. Enoch Powell importantcleverpeople If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one? Enoch Powell nuclearcostuse The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. Enoch Powell nigeria-independenceimaginationmen It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors. Enoch Powell cowardgovernmentblind Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one. Enoch Powell iraunionsoffice Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like. Enoch Powell sacredcowspolitical Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived. Enoch Powell heartbelieveworld It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity. Enoch Powell east-berlinchoiceskings The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made. Enoch Powell pridetwonext-week I should like to have been killed in the war. Enoch Powell has-beensshouldwar When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society. Enoch Powell achievementgovernmentdecision You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle. Enoch Powell politicstunesgiving The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. Enoch Powell advertisingbusinessenemy I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell diarieswriting
