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
fighting nhs long
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
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.
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
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.
politics arena morality
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
leadership party political
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
political crowns pieces
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
insulting democracy germany
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
summer struggle cricket-match
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
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.