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Aneurin Bevan [1897-1960] Welsh

Rank: 101
Politician, Former Secretary of State for Health

Aneurin Bevan, often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951.

Future, Politics, Power, Society, Sports, Sympathy, Truth

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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.		101
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.	Power	102
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.	Future	103
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.		104
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.		105
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.		106
This is my truth, tell me yours.	Truth	107
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.		108
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.		109
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.		110
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.	Future, Society	111
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.		112
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.		113
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.		114
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.		115
Politics is a blood sport.	Politics, Sports	116
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.	Sympathy	117
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.		118
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.		119
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.		120
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.		121
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.		122

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