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Virtue is its own punishment.

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
Punishment
Virtue
Life

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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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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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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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
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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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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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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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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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Advertising is 'an evil service'.
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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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