77 Quotes by Aneurin Bevan

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

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.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

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.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile 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.