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

Aneurin Bevan · Power

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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.

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

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

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

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