Quotes by Jimmy Reid - Page 1

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Government
Men
Challenges
Depth
Challenge
Fellow
Group
He Or She
Human Being
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The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Brother
Political
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It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Doing Good
Governors
Public Interest
Secret
Want
Good Doing Know
Let Us
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The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Trust
Constant
Democracy
Difficult
Ease
Exercise
Media
Path
People
Vigilance
Those
Govern
Hold
Task
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Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Activity
Ducks
Establishment
Evaluate
Human Society
Lame
Profit
Race
Rat Race
Sole
Vocabulary
Criterion
Economic Activity
Rat
Reminiscent
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From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Accountants
Atmosphere
Book
Judged
Olympian
Overwhelming
People
Units
Books
Executive
Extent
Heights
Production
Success Is
Suite
Tendency
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Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Folk Songs
Genius
House
Ownership
Responsible
Scottish
Song
Treasure
Burns
Claim
Collected
Enriched
Folk
Mainly
Melodic
Robert
Usable
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When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Government
Brown
Conservative
Doubt
Downing Street
Labour
Right Wing
Scotland
Voting
Wings
Power Government New
Aside
Cast
Conservative Government
Street
Gordon
Interests
Margaret
Realise
Thatcher
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Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Family
Jobs
Government
Abuse
Abuse Of Power
Access
Boys
Connections
Democracy
Practice
Privileged
Good Power Government
Boy
Fix
Corridor
Often
Deemed
Dictators
Entire
Families
Frowned
Good Jobs
Network
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A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Society
Blunt
Caution
Critical
Human Beings
Injustice
Insidious
Promotion
Race
Rat Race
Rats
Self
Silence
Face
Around
Beings
Chances
Human
Faculties
Happening
Would
Lest
Pressures
Rat
Reject
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Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the NUM as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Choices
Fighting
Years
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Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Leadership
Arthur
British
Destroyed
Disgrace
Fighting
Folly
Force
Immense
Leader
Miners
Paid
Pilots
Trade
Within
Choice
Effective
Ideal
Price
Union
Strike
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Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.
Jimmy Reid / Politician
Government
Essence
People
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