Aneurin Bevan Quotes - Page 2

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• I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

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  Lying, Opportunity, Welcome

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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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  Sympathy, War, Alive

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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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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  Order, Political, Politics

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• Virtue is its own punishment.

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  Life, Punishment, Virtue

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• Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

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  Political, Listening, Speech

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1962) vol. 1, ch. 8

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• Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

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  Men, Vaccines, Forget

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• Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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  Freedom, Political, Politics

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

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  Life, Book, Advice

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

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  Men, Walking Away, Faces

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• I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

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  Politics, Arena, Morality

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• Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

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  Fear, Islands, Sea

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• The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

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  Priorities, Language, Socialism

  Speech at Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, 8 June 1949, in 'Report of the 48th Annual Conference' (1949) p. 172

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• The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

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  Hero, People, Needs

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• Advertising is 'an evil service'.

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  Evil, Advertising

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• In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

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  Insulting, Democracy, Germany

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• You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

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  Emotional, Political, Politics

  1957 Labour Party conference speech against unilateral disarmament, Oct.

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• Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

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  Monkeys, Should, Organs

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• The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

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  Country, War, Fighting

  Aneurin Bevan, Peter J. Laugharne (1996). “Aneurin Bevan: Speeches at Westminster, 1929-1944”

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• A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

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  People, Want, Socialist

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• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

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  Leadership, Party, Political

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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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  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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• The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

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  Years, Gentleman, Democracy

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• There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

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  Socialism, Immaculate Conception, Immaculate

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• He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

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  Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

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  Our Generation, Tasks, Generations

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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