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


Aneurin Bevan

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfe...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.
STEPHANIE BEDWELL-GRIME Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
ANEURIN BEVAN I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating mach...
ANEURIN BEVAN No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the ...
ANEURIN BEVAN The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
ANEURIN BEVAN Politics is a blood sport.
ANEURIN BEVAN The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
ANEURIN BEVAN Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation...
ANEURIN BEVAN He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to str...
ANEURIN BEVAN I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about...
ANEURIN BEVAN It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rul...
ANEURIN BEVAN He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
ANEURIN BEVAN I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
ANEURIN BEVAN The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for...
ANEURIN BEVAN We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
ANEURIN BEVAN Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
ANEURIN BEVAN You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.
ANEURIN BEVAN Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
ANEURIN BEVAN I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
ANEURIN BEVAN This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce...
ANEURIN BEVAN I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a ...
ANEURIN BEVAN This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a...
ANEURIN BEVAN Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
ANEURIN BEVAN I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
ANEURIN BEVAN Virtue is its own punishment.
ANEURIN BEVAN No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a...
ANEURIN BEVAN No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the ...
ANEURIN BEVAN Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee -- and not too far away lest he forget thee.
ANEURIN BEVAN Virtue is its own punishment
ANEURIN BEVAN This is my truth, tell me yours.
ANEURIN BEVAN He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cr...
ANEURIN BEVAN If you carry this resolution and follow out all its implications and do not run away from it, you wi...
ANEURIN BEVAN The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man wil...
ANEURIN BEVAN We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over!
ANEURIN BEVAN This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a...
ANEURIN BEVAN The greatest honour in a reactionary country is to be a progressive man!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I ran out with Hunter, but Hamish and Bevan caught us,'' Alexander said.
HAMISH CARTER What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Walking backwards is a lot like life. You can't really see where you going, only where you've been. ...
MATT MALDRE The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time
SUNDAY ADELAJA We set off walking backwards, thumbs out, trying to hitchhike to the postoperative breast augmentati...
ANN PATCHETT As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future
SOTONYE ANGA We don't see that behavior anymore. Most people think of autism like 'Rain Man' or walking around fl...
PEGGY WEST A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduce...
TROFIM LYSENKO We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.
VICTORIA DAHL Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man ...
HELEN ROWLAND I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE Ooh, he just shot himself in the face. The man with the shotgun stepped out of the door and just put...
WILLIAM LOWE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more econ...
J. PAUL GETTY At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psycho...
ALEXANDER MASTERS The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
EVAN ESAR A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewilde...
PAT CONROY The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
PLATO The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
PLATO If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking.
DUOP CHAK WUOL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Face your past without regret.Handle your future with confidence.Prepare for future with hope of the...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but...
LESLIE STEPHEN The tribe often thinks the visionary has turned his back on them. When, in fact, the visionary has s...
RAY A. DAVIS The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
PLATO The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
PLATO For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, c...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
ALBERT CAMUS The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The man with wisdom rules his world, but the fool shall soon be cut off from the face of the earth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He was a man with eyebrows, or maybe they were eyebrows with a man. Ownership would have been hard t...
N.D. WILSON Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he...
AYN RAND In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
ALBERT CAMUS Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inhe...
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
WENDELL BERRY I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary politi...
BRUCE DAVISON A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we...
FRED HAMPTON When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
JOAN SMITH When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
ELIZABETH JOAN SMITH Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was p...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR. Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles...
DANIEL WOODRELL The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
MARTIN ESSLIN Man, I just want to stay in his face the whole game, any chance I get.
BOO MCLEE The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all of its meaninglessness
MARTIN ESSLIN These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these...
BILL COSBY Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for r...
ALBERT CAMUS A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the exp...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON On his face, you could see his irritation at the senator's misrepresentations. He was answering the ...
KAREN HUGHES If wrong done accept it with regret, handle your present with confidence & prepare yourself to face ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL The man you saw out here crossing your kids every day, that was Jim. He came to work every day with ...
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