Top 70 Aneurin Quotes
#1. He referred to Aneurin Bevan as 'Urinal' Bevan. As for the working classes, they couldn't write their own names in shit on a lavatory wall. I said I thought they could.
Tony Benn
#2. He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.
Harold Macmillan
#3. Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
Aneurin Bevan
#4. I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.
Aneurin Barnard
#5. No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
Aneurin Bevan
#6. He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
Aneurin Bevan
#7. The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
Aneurin Bevan
#8. Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
Aneurin Bevan
#9. There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
Aneurin Bevan
#10. When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.
Aneurin Barnard
#11. 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
#12. Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
Aneurin Bevan
#13. Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin Bevan
#14. The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
Aneurin Bevan
#15. Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
#16. I read the newspaper avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan
#17. 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
#18. He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
Aneurin Bevan
#19. 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
#20. 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.
Aneurin Bevan
#21. You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
Aneurin Bevan
#22. It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan
#23. I never like to stick to one media; whether it's a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.
Aneurin Barnard
#24. The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
Aneurin Bevan
#26. If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
Aneurin Bevan
#27. For me, every opportunity is a golden opportunity, so I just need to work as hard as I can to maintain credibility and respect and hopefully people enjoy watching me as an actor.
Aneurin Barnard
#28. Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Aneurin Bevan
#29. He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
Aneurin Bevan
#30. A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.
Aneurin Bevan
#31. Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan
#32. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.
Aneurin Barnard
#33. [Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
Aneurin Bevan
#34. We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over!
Aneurin Bevan
#35. I do my own stunts; that's something I'm very passionate about. I spent a lot of time on boats as a kid, so it's just nice to be able to put that into use in the job that I do.
Aneurin Barnard
#36. As long as I'm enjoying what I'm doing, then that's fine. That's what I want. I want to enjoy life. We're only here for a small ride, so it may as well be a good one. If I can go to work enjoying what I do, then my life becomes a very nice one.
Aneurin Barnard
#37. The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.
Aneurin Bevan
#38. You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Aneurin Bevan
#39. Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
Aneurin Bevan
#40. I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'
Aneurin Barnard
#41. Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
Aneurin Bevan
#42. I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
Aneurin Barnard
#43. The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.
Aneurin Barnard
#45. The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
Aneurin Bevan
#46. I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
Aneurin Barnard
#47. Of course, every actor has their box and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself. I love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play.
Aneurin Barnard
#48. The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan
#49. We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
Aneurin Bevan
#50. If I played Bond, my dad probably wouldn't know what to do with himself. He'd probably put his shoes on the wrong way for the rest of his life!
Aneurin Barnard
#51. He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
#52. There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.
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#53. 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
#55. I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan
#56. Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
Aneurin Barnard
#57. Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.
Aneurin Barnard
#59. Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan
#60. I want to be challenged. Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box.
Aneurin Barnard
#61. I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.
Aneurin Barnard
#62. I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Aneurin Bevan
#63. The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
Aneurin Bevan
#64. We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land
Aneurin Bevan
#65. What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
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#66. The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan
#67. There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
Aneurin Bevan
#69. It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
#70. 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
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