Aneurin Bevan Quotations

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.

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.

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

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.