Michael Foot Quotes

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.

Michael Foot

• Business
• Opinion
• Liberation

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?

Michael Foot

• Leadership
• Criticism
• Democratic

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.

Michael Foot

• Purpose
• Always
• Progress

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Michael Foot

• Passed
• Rising
• Statesman

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

Michael Foot

• Universe
• Imagine
• Politicians

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

Michael Foot

• People
• Law
• Broke

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

Michael Foot

• Man
• Sound
• Make

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

Michael Foot

• People
• Want
• Labour

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Michael Foot

• Power
• Read
• Unfit

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Michael Foot

• Public
• Socialism
• Fantastic