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
funeral insane purpose
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
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.
nuclear cost use
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?
writing diaries
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
space transcendental realms
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
believe heart world
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
littles sometimes politician
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.
race knows happens
It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.
party would-be lasts
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.
government coward blind
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
russia years challenges
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.
giving politics tunes
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
evil function supreme
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.