If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. Aneurin Bevan More Quotes by Aneurin Bevan More Quotes From Aneurin Bevan No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. Aneurin Bevan medical sick mean The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it Aneurin Bevan nhs fighting long 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. Aneurin Bevan political lying art 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. Aneurin Bevan nhs party heart Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets Aneurin Bevan prudent people television The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do. Aneurin Bevan politics political men Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual. Aneurin Bevan impact suffering numbers What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety. Aneurin Bevan anxiety doctors able I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Aneurin Bevan politics political fiction The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. Aneurin Bevan political power giving 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. Aneurin Bevan steel land should We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. Aneurin Bevan running inspirational life Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. Aneurin Bevan crowns pieces political I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine. Aneurin Bevan party children moving This is my truth, tell me yours. Aneurin Bevan my-truth truth 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. Aneurin Bevan swag political views There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism. Aneurin Bevan democratic-socialism socialism democratic Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. Aneurin Bevan walking-away faces men Politics is a blood sport. Aneurin Bevan motivational-sports sports blood There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in. Aneurin Bevan cabinets two way
