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 suffering
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
emotional political statesmanship
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
political labels genius
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
political listening politics
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
order political politics
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
political age politics
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
giving political conversation
[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
leadership party political
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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.
political fiction politics
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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.
political crowns pieces
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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.