Quotes of Aneurin Bevan - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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 four and a half years. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ Poor fellow, he suffers from files. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ Poor fellow, he suffers from files. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ 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

“ He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ 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

“ Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ No attempt 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

“ 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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ If you carry this resolution and follow out all its implications and do not run away from it, you will send a Foreign Secretary, whoever he was, naked into the conference chamber. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ 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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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
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