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Aneurin Bevan Inspirational Quotes (56)

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
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We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
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