Ernest Bevin Quotes

#1. Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

Ernest Bevin

#2. A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

Michael Foot

#3. The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil. ERNEST BEVIN, CHURCHILL'S MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE London,

Donald L. Miller

#4. If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Ernest Bevin

#5. I didn't choose you, but I sure as fuck can't free myself of you.

Katy Evans

#6. I kept my voice calm. It wasn't hard, I was calm. Anger carries less horror with it, men understand anger. It promises resolution; maybe bloody resolution, but swift.

Mark Lawrence

#7. Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

Brian Johnson

#8. There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

Ernest Bevin

#9. What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Ernest Bevin

#10. They tell us the people we love are 72.8% water-
there is no such thing as crying,
we are only trying to turn ourselves inside out.
This is a noble pursuit.

Lewis Mundt

#11. A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Ernest Bevin

#12. Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Ernest Bevin

#13. If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

Ernest Bevin

#14. Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets. And in doing so, they had preserved themselves from the Bane.

Sherry Thomas

#15. Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

Ernest Bevin

#16. It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Ernest Bevin

#17. If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

Ernest Bevin

#18. And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Alan Alda

#19. It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

Ernest Bevin

#20. There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

Ernest Bevin

#21. Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Robert Browning

#22. Do you hate her?"
"Almost as much as I lover her." - Dany & Ser Jorah

George R R Martin

#23. My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

Ernest Bevin

#24. There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Eva Braun

#25. There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Ernest Bevin

#26. The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Ernest Bevin

#27. Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Ernest Bevin

#28. The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Ernest Bevin

#29. Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.

Jeanne DuPrau

#30. I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

Sandra Bullock