"The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide……" — Enoch Powell

"The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils."

— Enoch Powell

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21 Quotes by Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were…
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if…
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard…
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is…
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who…
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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