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
socialism immaculate-conception immaculate
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
attempt burning concerned eradicate ethical far hatred lower social tory
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.
our-generation tasks generations
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.
personality mind products
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
complaining monkeys tunes
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.
struggle imagination mind
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.
aunt middle-east world
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
sound tin determined
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
men vaccines forget
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
men political suffering
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
emotional political statesmanship
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
sympathy war alive
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.
political labels genius
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
people want socialist
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.