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

 

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


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He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

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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.

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This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. -Aneurin Bevan
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. -Aneurin Bevan
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

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