120 Quotes filtered by ideologies
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.
Tony Benn 22/11/1990
Category: Freedom & Liberty
I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
Tony Benn 20/05/1963
Category: Republicanism (in Britain)
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
Clement Attlee
Category: Dictatorship & Tyranny
We have shown that orderly planning and freedom are not incompatible.
Clement Attlee 17/02/1950
Category: Labour Governments, Freedom & Liberty
The saddest illusion of revolutionary socialists is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.
Shirley Williams
Category: Revolution
Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.
Lord Salisbury
Category: Capitalism, Industry & Business
What the wise men promised hasn't happened and what all the damned fools said would happen, has happened.
Lord Melbourne 1829
On Catholic emancipation.
Category: Catholicism, Northern Ireland
The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.
Clement Attlee
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Clement Attlee 1956
Category: Communism
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by its minorities.
Lord Acton 1877
Category: Freedom & Liberty
I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.
Barbara Castle 05/10/1969
Category: Flirtation, Feminism
I do not regard the swing to Thatcherism - as it has been called - as more than a passing phenomenon in the evolution of the Conservative Party.
James Prior
Category: Thatcherism
As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately, none of the sound ideas is original, and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold Macmillan 1961
Category: Insulting Liberals, Ideas
the number of people who really think in any age and country is very limited, and still smaller is the number of those who think for themselves.
H H Asquith 1918
Category: Ideas
You are miserable isolated individuals. You are bankrupt. You have played out your role. Go where you belong, to the dustheap of history.
Leon Trotsky 10/1917
On the Mensheviks.
Category: Communism, Revolution
Whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. ame with blacks. They must be kade to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
Steve Biko 26/10/1977
Category: Racism
