Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell, MBEwas a British politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament, Ulster Unionist PartyMP, and Minister of Health...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 June 1912
betrayal depth exhibitions
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.
political sacred cows
Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.
office unions ira
Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.
funeral insane purpose
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.
kings east-berlin choices
It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.
government achievement decision
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.
business enemy advertising
The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
taken europe taught
I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.
humble media sea
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
nuclear cost use
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?
responsibility ethics action
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
fighting battle lasts
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
writing diaries
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.