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
democratic-socialism socialism democratic
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
political age politics
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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.
suffering poor bureaucracy
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
monkeys should organs
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
socialism immaculate-conception immaculate
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
personality mind products
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
reading made duty
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
political labels genius
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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.
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.
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.
people want socialist
A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
opposites statistics pushing
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.