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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
Men
Reactionary
Reactionaries
Backwards
Walking
Face
Faces
Future

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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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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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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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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
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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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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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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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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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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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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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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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