43 Quotes by Michael Foot

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I’m glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.