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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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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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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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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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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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Virtue is its own punishment.
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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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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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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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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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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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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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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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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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