Welsh - Politician | November 15, 1897 - July 6, 1960
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
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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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No attempt 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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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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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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This is my truth, tell me yours.
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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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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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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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