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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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I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
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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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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
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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 is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.
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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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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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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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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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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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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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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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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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