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
crazy self order
Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.
party irony stranger
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
silence silence-is my-friends
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
book hours glorious
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
men imagination nigeria-independence
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
war happens
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
past men political
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.
country differences citizens
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.
war should has-beens
I should like to have been killed in the war.