He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
Aneurin BevanIt is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin BevanThe 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 BevanFascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin BevanSoon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
Aneurin BevanThis 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[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 BevanNo society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
Aneurin BevanWhat should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
Aneurin BevanThe 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.
Aneurin BevanStand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin BevanI welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
Aneurin BevanNo 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 BevanIt is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin BevanHow 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 BevanI 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 BevanIn Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
Aneurin BevanI 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 BevanThe Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin BevanThe Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
Aneurin BevanWe 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 BevanThere are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
Aneurin BevanI know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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