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Aneurin Bevan Inspirational Quotes (56)

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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
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Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
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The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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