24 Quotes by Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

In 1984, the miners' union, which was down to about 180,000, was able to sustain a national industrial dispute for one year and four months.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.