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
curse knew man sound
He was the only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
imagination
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
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
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?
party people favour
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
attitude law judging
[There are] judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes.
leader political rising
No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.
secret bed looks
The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.
unemployment wages economics
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.