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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.

- Aneurin Bevan

Deep, Seduction, Concerned, Eradicate

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

Deep, Hatred, Concerned, Eradicate

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

- Aneurin Bevan

Leader, Kind, Labour Party, Right Kind

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

- Aneurin Bevan

Trumpet, Determined, Like, Tin

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

- Aneurin Bevan

New, Refusing, Itself, Fascism

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

- Aneurin Bevan

Genius, Prime, Minister, Luggage

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

- Aneurin Bevan

Business, Reading, Made, No Business

This is my truth, tell me yours.

- Aneurin Bevan

Truth, Me, Tell, Yours

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

Small, Alive, Large, Gush

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

- Aneurin Bevan

Fiction, Read, Form, Continuous

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

Island, Surrounded, Made, Shortage

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

- Aneurin Bevan

Away, Thee, Lest, Near

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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Freedom, Economic, Surplus, By-Product

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

- Aneurin Bevan

Poor, Suffers, Files, Fellow

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

- Aneurin Bevan

Politics, Never, Interest, Regarded

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

- Aneurin Bevan

Walking, Face, His, Reactionary

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

- Aneurin Bevan

Will, Enforced, Industrially, Politically

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

- Aneurin Bevan

Election, Will, Must, Tories

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

- Aneurin Bevan

World, Middle, East, Middle East

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

- Aneurin Bevan

Give, Away, Getting, Power

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