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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Aneurin Bevan

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Aneurin Bevan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: July 6
Politician
Secretary Of State For Health
Trade Unionist
Nye Bevan
Journalism
Newspapers
Fiction
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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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 should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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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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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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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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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
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