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
To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
covered deep elephant fresh grass helping hole pit sharp
Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass
men imagination nigeria-independence
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
responsibility ethics action
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
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.
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.
media sea sailor
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
elephants pits helping
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.
emotion stomach score
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
political sacred cows
Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.
book hours glorious
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
war happens
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
war should has-beens
I should like to have been killed in the war.
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.