Youre not an M.P., youre a gastronomic pimp. – Aneurin Bevan
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. – Aneurin Bevan
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. – Aneurin Bevan
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. – Aneurin Bevan
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. – 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
Poor fellow, he suffers from files. – Aneurin Bevan
This is my truth, tell me yours. – 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
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. – Aneurin Bevan
Politics is a blood sport. – Aneurin Bevan
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. – Aneurin Bevan
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. – Aneurin Bevan
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. – Aneurin Bevan
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. – Aneurin Bevan
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. – Aneurin Bevan
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. – Aneurin Bevan
