Aneurin Bevan Quotes & Sayings

“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts 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.”

“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.”

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

“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.”

“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”

“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”

“Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.”

“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.”

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

“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.”