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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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You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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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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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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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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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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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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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 have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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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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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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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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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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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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I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
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