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
men imagination nigeria-independence
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
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.
queens men justice
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.
believe mean men
It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No.
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
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.