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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
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Punishment
Virtue

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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
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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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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
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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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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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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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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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There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
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There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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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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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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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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