Rivers of Blood Speech by Enoch Powell - Press cuttings about and text of the Conservative MPs "Rivers of Blood" speech against the immigration of non-whites to Britain.
Enoch Powell - A "depreciation" of the controversial politician from the anti-racist magazine, Searchlight.
Enoch Powell - Diocesan Press Release - Statement regarding the death of Enoch Powell and his lying-in in Westminster Abbey by Bishop Wilfred Wood the Bishop of Croydon.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Powell, Enoch These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Powell, Enoch
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Powell, Enoch "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Powell, Enoch
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Powell, Enoch The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Powell, Enoch
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Powell, Enoch "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Powell, Enoch
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Powell, Enoch Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Powell, Enoch
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Powell, Enoch To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Powell, Enoch
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Powell, Enoch Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Powell, Enoch
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Powell, Enoch No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Powell, Enoch
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Powell, Enoch It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Powell, Enoch
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Powell, Enoch A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Powell, Enoch
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Powell, Enoch The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Powell, Enoch
