Source: In Place of Fear
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Famous Aneurin Bevan Quotes
Source: In Place of Fear
“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”
Source: In Place of Fear
Source: Aneurin Bevan: Speeches at Westminster, 1929-1944
“The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it”
“There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.”
“Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.”
Source: In Place of Fear
“A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.”
“We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.”
“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.”
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”
“Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.”
“Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.”
“He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.”
“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.”
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
Source: In Place of Fear
“He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.”
“He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.”
“You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.”
“Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.”
“In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.”
Source: In Place of Fear
“There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.”
“Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.”