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| ANEURIN BEVAN "either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property, or property, in fear of poverty, will destroy democracy" "discontent arises from the knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual" "in one sense the House of Commons is the most unrepresentative of representative assemblies. It is an elaborate conspiracy to prevent the real clash of opinion which exists outside from finding an appropriate echo within it's walls. It is a social shock absorber placed between privilege and the pressures of popular discontent" "a sympathetic understanding of what Marxists are trying to say to the world is a pre-requisite to learning where the Marxist practitioners are liable to go wrong" "when the Labour Party has made a mistake, it has not been in consequence of pursuing it's principles too roughly or too far, but by making too many concessions to conventional opinion" "unless a radical solution is found, the political parties will tend to revolve around the ridiculous issue of sixpence on or off the income tax. This is pure Liberal polemics" "the language of priorities is the language of Socialism" "we know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down" "I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a dessicated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he see's suffering, privation or injustice, he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine" |
| GEORGE ORWELL "I have known numbers of bourgeois socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table manners" "to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose on 'them', the lower orders" "the only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism, justice & liberty. But is hardly strong enough to call this ideal 'underlying'. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctrinaire priggishness, party squabbles, and half-baked progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a mountain of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice & Liberty" "...many people who are not repelled by Socialism are repelled by Socialists. Socialism as now presented is largely unattractive because it appears, at any rate from the outside, to be the plaything of cranks, doctrinaires, parlour Bolsheviks, and so forth" "A Socialist Party which genuinely wished to achieve anything would have started by facing several facts which to this day are considered unmentionable in left wing circles. It would have recognised that England is more united than most countries, that the British workers have a great deal to lose beside their chains, and that the differences and habits between class and class are rapidly diminishing" "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearence of solidity to pure wind" |
| RICHARD RUMBOLD "I am sure that no man was marked of God above another; for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back , neither any booted and spurred to ride him" |
| UNITED NATIONS CHARTER "We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind" |
| Thomas Paine "All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny… to inherit a government is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds" "My country is the world, my religion is to do good" |
| Karl Marx "Religion is the opium of the people" "From each, according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it" "Working men of all countries… UNITE" |
| ROSA LUXEMBURG "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently" |
| PAUL WELLER "Kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns, the public gets what the public wants " "God created all men equal" |
| ALEXANDER DUBCEK "In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose it’s human face" |
| JAWAHARLAL NEHRU "It may be said that the forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them" |
| ERNEST BEVIN "There has never been a war yet which, if the facts had been calmly put before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented… the common man, I think, is the great protection against war" |
| BILLY BRAGG "If paradise is cheap beer and overtime, home truths are easily missed" "Theirs is a land with a wall around it, mine is a faith in my fellow man" |
| MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT "I do not wish them (women) to have power over men but over themselves" |
| ARTHUR SCARGILL "Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law" |
| BERNARD SHAW "All great truths begin as blasphemies" "Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you" |
| ALDOUS HUXLEY "So long as men worship caesars and Napoleans, caesars and napoleans will duly arise and make them miserable" |
| BOB MARLEY "Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight" |
| BERTRAND RUSSELL "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell" |
| BERTRAND RUSSELL "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell" |
| BERTRAND RUSSELL "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell" |