Michael Foot
Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot PC FRSLwas a British Labour Party politician and man of letters. Foot began his career as a journalist, becoming editor of Tribune on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper at the age of just 28. He co-wrote the classic polemic against appeasement of Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 July 1913
believe people coal
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal
men sound curse
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
country people movement
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement
attitude law judging
[There are] judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes.
thinking eunuchs selected
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
political rising periods
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
apology socialism fantastic
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology
country past rights
It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
unemployment wages economics
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
party people favour
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
littles world imagine
Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.
party criticism debate
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?
mind empires opinion
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
mean progress purpose
We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.