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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
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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
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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.
Aneurin Bevan
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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.
Aneurin Bevan
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
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