61 Quotes by Enoch Powell

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on the grounds of his origin.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.

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.

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.