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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
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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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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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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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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the 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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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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Virtue is its own punishment.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
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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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A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
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Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
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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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