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I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

Anthony Crosland
Believe, Long, Form
Speech in Eastbourne, November 20, 1975.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Anthony Crosland
Luxury, Generations, Next

Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.

Anthony Crosland
Running, Jobs, Democracy
Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

Anthony Crosland
Law, Defiance, Democratic
Speech in the House of Commons, November 6, 1974.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

Anthony Crosland
Country, Class, Stronger
"The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

Anthony Crosland
Class, Two, Luxury
"The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

Anthony Crosland
Party, Believe, Mean
The Times, September 8, 1977.

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

Anthony Crosland
Air, Class, Differences
"The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

Anthony Crosland
Moving, Government, Should Have
Anthony Crosland (1974). “Socialism now and other essays”, Jonathan Cape

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

Anthony Crosland
Men, Wholeheartedly
"The Conservative Enemy". Book by Anthony Crosland, p. 103, 1962.

We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

Anthony Crosland
Country, Party, Believe

Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

Anthony Crosland
War, Government, Israel
Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

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