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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
Sound
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
Party
Seduction
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan
Peace
World
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
Experience
Will
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
Altruism
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan
Fiction
Newspapers
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
Party
Seduction
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan
Politics
Interest
Morals
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan
Future
Man
Walking
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan
Freedom
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
Society
Fascism
Future
Order
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Aneurin Bevan
Leader
Machine
Party
Right
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan
Poor
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan
Business
Duty
Reading
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin Bevan
Forget
Man