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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

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
Discontent
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The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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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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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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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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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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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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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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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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