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

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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
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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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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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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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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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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 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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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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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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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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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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