Quotes of Roy Jenkins - somelinesforyou

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends. ”

- Roy Jenkins
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