Brigadier John Enoch Powell, MBE (1912–98) was an English politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament, Ulster Unionist Party MP, and Minister of Health. He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech on immigration, now widely referred to as the “Rivers of Blood” speech. In response, he was dismissed from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary in the Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath. Thirty years later Heath commented that Powell’s remarks on the “economic burden of immigration” had been “not without prescience.”
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When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
—Enoch Powell
Topics: Emotions
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
—Enoch Powell
Topics: Advertising
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
—Enoch Powell
Topics: Fighting
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