Aneurin Bevan Quotes - Page 3

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• He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Struggle, Imagination, Mind

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• We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Opposites, Statistics, Pushing

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• I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tunes, Complaining, Monkeys

  During a debate on the Suez crisis, 'Hansard' 16 May 1957, col. 680

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• [Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Giving, Political, Politics

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• Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Reading, Made, Duty

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• He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sound, Tin, Determined

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• He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Political, Suffering

  In Vincent Brome Aneurin Bevan (1953) ch. 11

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• Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Suffering, Poor, Bureaucracy

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