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
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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.
order political politics
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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.
sound tin determined
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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.
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.
years gentleman democracy
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
aunt middle-east world
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
fear sea islands
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.