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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
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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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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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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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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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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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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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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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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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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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