Aneurin Bevan Quotes

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• No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Mean, Sick, Medical

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

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• The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

  Aneurin Bevan

  Fighting, Nhs, Long

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• How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Art, Lying, Political

  In Place of Fear ch. 1 (1952)

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts 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.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Party, Heart, Nhs

  Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948

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• Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

  Aneurin Bevan

  People, Television, Prudent

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

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• The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Political, Politics

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• Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Impact, Numbers, Suffering

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

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• What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Doctors, Anxiety, Able

  Aneurin Bevan's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 9, 1948.

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• I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Fiction, Politics

  The Times 29 Mar. 1960

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Power, Giving, Political

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  See Hightower 2

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• We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Land, Steel, Should

  "In Place of Fear". Book by Aneurin Bevan, 1952.

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• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Labels, Genius

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• If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Poverty, Saved, Solutions

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

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• Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Crowns, Pieces

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13

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• I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees 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.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Children, Party, Moving

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11

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• This is my truth, tell me yours.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Truth, My Truth

  "Labour's lost loves" by Nick McDermott, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2003.

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• The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Views, Swag, Political

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• There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Democratic Socialism, Socialism, Democratic

  Aneurin Bevan's Statement on his resignation in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. April 23, 1951.

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• This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Funny, Humor, Islands

  Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945

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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.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sympathy, War, Alive

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

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• The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

  Aneurin Bevan

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Insulting, Democracy, Germany

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Lying, Opportunity, Welcome

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• Politics is a blood sport.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Blood

  Quoted in Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).

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