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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

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
Backwards
Walking
Face
Faces
Future
Men
Reactionary
Reactionaries

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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 NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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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 not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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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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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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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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Politics is a blood sport.
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Virtue is its own punishment.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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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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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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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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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
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