"If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I……" — Enoch Powell
"If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words."
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21 Quotes by Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell has 21 quotes on this site.
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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
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A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
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Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
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A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were…
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Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if…
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Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard…
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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is…
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We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who…
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
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Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
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More Cannot Understand Quotes
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can…
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
— Charles Baudelaire
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice…
— Nhat Hanh
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
— John Hagee
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if…
— Dwight L. Moody
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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the…
— Oswald Chambers
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Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
— Jean Toomer
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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