Neil Kinnock Quotes

• La compasión no es un descuidado sentimiento sentimental hacia las personas desfavorecidas o enfermas... es la convicción absolutamente práctica de que, independientemente de los antecedentes de una persona, de su capacidad o de su capacidad de pago, se le debe proporcionar lo mejor que la sociedad pueda ofrecer.

  Neil Kinnock

  Inspirational, Compassion, Sick

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• I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

  Neil Kinnock

  Fall, Ordinary, Young

  On the prospect of a Conservative re-election, in speech at Bridgend, 7 June 1983; 'Guardian' 8 June 1983

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• The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

  Neil Kinnock

  House, Paradise, Lord

  Tribune, November 19, 1976.

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• I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

  Neil Kinnock

  Country, Arms Race, Let Me

  Speech at Labour Party Conference, 30 Sept. 1986, in Guardian 1 Oct. 1986

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• Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

  Neil Kinnock

  Inspirador, Divertido, Humorístico

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• We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

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  Evil, Ownership, Source

  1975 In Tribune.

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• The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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  Enemy, Idealism, Ideals

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• They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

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  Yellow, Bananas, Gang

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• Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

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  War, Labour Movement, World

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• I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

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  Advice, Adults, Experts

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• Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

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  Truth, Two, Half

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• Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

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  Revenge, Desire, Toxins

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• I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

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  Death, Eye, Hands

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• That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

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  Liberty, Economic, Assets

  Speech to National Housing and Town Planning Conference in Bournemouth, October 28, 1986.

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• I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

  Neil Kinnock

  Fall, Ill

  Speech, Bridgend, England, 7 June 1983

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, Agony

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

  Neil Kinnock

  Vanity, Political, Killers

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

  Neil Kinnock

  Want, Unfairness, Ideology

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• Someone up there likes me.

  Neil Kinnock

  Le gusta

  "The Making of Neil Kinnock". Book by Robert Harris, 1984.

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• Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

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  Fighting, Hands, Rifles

  Speech in the House of Commons, October 23, 1986.

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• Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Labour Movement, Answers

  "'He's a bastard but he's our bastard'". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Historical, Trouble

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• [Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

  Neil Kinnock

  Political, Intellectual, Way

  Interview with Sam Aaronovitch, Marxism Today, June 1983.

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• At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

  Neil Kinnock

  Jobs, School, Doctors

  South Wales Echo, November 01, 1975.

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