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Top 30 Neil Kinnock Quotes (2025 Update)

Neil Kinnock Quote: “I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.”

1. “I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.”

2. “I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “The House of Lords must go – not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”

3. “The House of Lords must go – not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”

4. “The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “The enemy of idealism is zealotry.”

5. “The enemy of idealism is zealotry.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Someone up there likes me.”

6. “Someone up there likes me.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.”

7. “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.”

8. “I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who’s got the smallest.”

9. “Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who’s got the smallest.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Two negatives don’t make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.”

10. “Two negatives don’t make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.”

11. “Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”

12. “You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn’t see, or didn’t want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.”

13. “Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn’t see, or didn’t want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.”

14. “I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “I’m prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He’s a world expert on leisure. He’s been practicing it for most of his adult life.”

15. “I’m prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He’s a world expert on leisure. He’s been practicing it for most of his adult life.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Do something that makes a difference – because, by God, there’s a lot to make you angry.”

16. “Do something that makes a difference – because, by God, there’s a lot to make you angry.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”

17. “The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.”

18. “I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.”

19. “Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.”

20. “The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.”

21. “They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.”

22. “No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It’s less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn’t address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.”

23. “People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It’s less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn’t address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.”

— Neil Kinnock

$Neil Kinnock Quote: “Without false modetsy, I don’t think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.”$

24. “Without false modetsy, I don’t think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.”

25. “We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Political renegades always start their career of treachery as ‘the best men of all parties’ and end up in the Tory knackery.”

26. “Political renegades always start their career of treachery as ‘the best men of all parties’ and end up in the Tory knackery.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can’t see it happening, and I’m not particularly keen on it happening.”

27. “At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can’t see it happening, and I’m not particularly keen on it happening.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.”

28. “Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.”

29. “That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.”

30. “Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “We must not look for some kind of Messiah.”

31. “We must not look for some kind of Messiah.”

— Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock Quote: “American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.”

32. “American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.”

— Neil Kinnock

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