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No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. — Aneurin Bevan

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind. — Sara Sheridan

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism. — Aneurin Bevan

Virtue is its own punishment. — Aneurin Bevan

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

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

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm. — Aneurin Bevan

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society. — Aneurin Bevan

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over! — Aneurin Bevan

Buildings are not political but are politicized by why and how they are built, regarded and destroyed. — Robert Bevan

Politics is a blood sport. — Aneurin Bevan

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. — Aneurin Bevan

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. — Aneurin Bevan

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do. — Aneurin Bevan

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets — Aneurin Bevan

While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life. — Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

I read the newspaper avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction. — Aneurin Bevan

I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality. — Bevan Lee

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

Why, that means you're just a ... busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.' — Sara Sheridan

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. — Aneurin Bevan

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan

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. — Aneurin Bevan

A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta. — Sara Sheridan

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism. — Aneurin Bevan

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in. — Aneurin Bevan

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

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

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book. — Aneurin Bevan

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog. — Sara Sheridan

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true. — Sara Sheridan

Poor fellow, he suffers from files. — Aneurin Bevan

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove. — Sara Sheridan

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. — Aneurin Bevan

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite. — Sara Sheridan

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. — Aneurin Bevan

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

Oh come on man," said Dave. "That's seriously not cool. You're supposed to ride those, not use them as meat shields." — Robert Bevan

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get. — Tim Bevan

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. — Aneurin Bevan

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years? — Sara Sheridan

If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it? — Sara Sheridan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. — Aneurin Bevan

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder. — Aneurin Bevan

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave. — Sara Sheridan

Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast. — Sara Sheridan

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. — Aneurin Bevan

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read. — Sara Sheridan

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

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. — Aneurin Bevan

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

Advertising is 'an evil service'. — Aneurin Bevan

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual. — Aneurin Bevan

Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play. — Rob Bevan

I like you in green,' he said. 'You look as if you're a very beautiful imp.' — Sara Sheridan

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot. — Neil Kinnock

There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to. — Gloria Bevan

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him. — Aneurin Bevan

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it — Aneurin Bevan

This is my truth, tell me yours. — Aneurin Bevan

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. — Aneurin Bevan

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

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. — Aneurin Bevan