61 Quotes by Enoch Powell

"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs."

"It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at."

"In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that."

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends."

"I hope those who shouted “Fascist” and “Nazi” are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism."

"I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit."

"If I cannot understand my friend’s silence, I will never get to understand his words."

"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."

"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."

"Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ‘controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see."