Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan, often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice, rights of working people, and democratic socialism. He was a long-time Member of Parliament, representing Ebbw Vale in South Wales for 31 years. He was one of the chief spokesmen for the Labour party's left wing, and of...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 November 1897
Aneurin Bevan quotes about
men political politics
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
views swag political
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.
doctors anxiety able
What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
inspirational life running
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
truth my-truth
This is my truth, tell me yours.
numbers impact suffering
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.
land steel should
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
people prudent television
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
monkeys should organs
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
sports motivational-sports blood
Politics is a blood sport.
power giving purpose
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
political fiction politics
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
party heart nhs
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.
art lying political
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.