Aneurin Bevan quotes
Aneurin Bevan was a British politician and a leading figure in the Labour Party, best known as the architect of the National Health Service (NHS). His vision transformed healthcare in the UK by making medical services free at the point of use. He is remembered as a passionate advocate for social justice and public welfare. Here are 78 of his quotes:
Economics, said Mr Stanley, is 50% psychology ... What we need, apparently, is not statesman but hypnotists, not scientists, but witchdoctors, not confidence born of scientific prediction of the future, but confidence created by a political Confidence Trick. There is nothing surprising in this. It is the kind of mystic Mumbo-Jumbo to which capitalism is driven when austere reason pronounces sentence of death upon it. It is the primitive recoil from reality and the burdens of reality which lies at the root of Fascist psychology.
Aneurin Bevan
The great Powers of the world today as they look at the armaments they have built up, find themselves hopelessly frustrated. If that be the case, what is the use of speaking about first-class, second-class and third-class Powers? That is surely the wrong language to use. It does not comply with contemporary reality. What we have to seek is new ways of being great, new modes of pioneering, new fashions of thought, new means of inspiring and igniting the minds of mankind. We can do so.
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan
Occupation: Welsh Politician
Born: November 15, 1897
Died: July 6, 1960
Quotes count: 78
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