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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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 an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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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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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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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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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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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 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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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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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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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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