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 Copy Share Image
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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… — Enoch Powell Copy Share
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share
For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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… — Enoch Powell Copy Share
