I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it. — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections. — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ...… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
