Enoch Powell Quotes - Page 2

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• A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

  Enoch Powell

  Littles, Sometimes, Nonsense

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• I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.

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  Taken, Europe, Doctrine

  The Daily Telegraph (9 June 1975), from "Enoch Powell on 1992", p. 144, 1989.

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• 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

  Government, Achievement, Decision

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• 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.

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  Clever, People, Important

  Enoch Powell's Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 19, 1968.

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• Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

  Enoch Powell

  Space, Transcendental, Realms

  "The revival of Tory philosophy" by John Casey, www.spectator.co.uk. March 14, 2007.

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• 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

  Government, Coward, Blind

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.

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• A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

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  Mean, Government, Would Be

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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• 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.

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  Country, Differences, Citizens

  "Black Britain's darkest hour" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

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  Men, Imagination, Nigeria Independence

  John Enoch Powell, John Wood (1970). “Freedom and reality”, Arlington House Publishers

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• Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

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  Inspirational, Life, Media

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• I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

  Enoch Powell

  Writing, Diaries

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• Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

  Enoch Powell

  Political, Cows, Sacred

  John Enoch Powell (1972). “Still to Decide”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

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  Office, Ira, Unions

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• 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

  Believe, Heart, World

  Interview by Brian Walden (29 January 1978), from "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, Phoenix, (p. 800), 1999.

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• 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.

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  Kings, East Berlin, Choices

  The Daily Telegraph, April 29, 1967.

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• 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.

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  Pride, Next Week, Two

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• I should like to have been killed in the war.

  Enoch Powell

  War, Should, Has Beens

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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• It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

  Enoch Powell

  Race, Happens, Knows

  The Guardian, June 6, 1970.

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• When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

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  Emotion, Stomach, Score

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• I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

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  Party, Would Be, Lasts

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• The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  Enoch Powell

  Business, Enemy, Advertising

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• The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

  Enoch Powell

  Book, Hours, Glorious

  The Observer, April 24, 1966.

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