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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
— Aneurin Bevan
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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
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
This is my truth, tell me yours.
— Aneurin Bevan
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
— Aneurin Bevan