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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.
Aneurin Bevan
Heart, Deep, Hatred
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.
Aneurin Bevan
Heart, Deep, Hatred
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
Aneurin Bevan
Election, Programme, Tories
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Aneurin Bevan
Down, Road, Happens
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.
Aneurin Bevan
Time, Made, Same
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan
Power, Give, Away
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan
Read, Fiction, Newspapers
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan
Genius, Empty, Prime
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan
Politics, Interest, Morals
This is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin Bevan
Truth, Tell, Yours
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
Future, Society, Born
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.
Aneurin Bevan
Sympathy, Small, Rather
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan
Peace, Possible, Create
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan
Freedom, Economic, Surplus
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
Experience, Rule, Ages
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
Politics, Blood
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
Seems, Sound, Determined
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Aneurin Bevan
Political, Leader, Party
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan
Poor, Fellow, Suffers
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan
Future, Face, Walking
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan
Business, Made, Reading
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin Bevan
Forget, Rich, Away

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh
Born: November 15, 1897
Died: July 6, 1960

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