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 More Quotes by Aneurin Bevan More Quotes From Aneurin Bevan The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate. Aneurin Bevan fighting war country Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence. Aneurin Bevan speech political listening 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. Aneurin Bevan our-generation generations tasks I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. Aneurin Bevan political party leadership [Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence. Aneurin Bevan politics political giving The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him. Aneurin Bevan hero people needs He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. Aneurin Bevan intelligence intellectual personality 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. Aneurin Bevan imagination struggle mind 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. Aneurin Bevan monkeys tunes complaining Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. Aneurin Bevan duty reading made You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm. Aneurin Bevan emotional politics political The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years. Aneurin Bevan democracy gentleman years Poor fellow, he suffers from files. Aneurin Bevan bureaucracy poor suffering Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. Aneurin Bevan fear sea islands He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. Aneurin Bevan political suffering men We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. Aneurin Bevan pushing statistics opposites He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. Aneurin Bevan tin determined sound I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Aneurin Bevan You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp. Aneurin Bevan No attempt 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 deep i-am party heart
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