Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin Bevan often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee ministry from 1945-51.

The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice, the rights of working people and democratic socialism.

He was a long-time Member of Parliament (MP), representing Ebbw Vale in South Wales for 31 years. He was one of the chief spokesmen for the Labour Party’s left-wing, and of left-wing British thought generally.

Date of birth:
15th November, 1897
Date of death:
6th July, 1960
"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."
― Aneurin Bevan
Topic(s): Power
"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
― Aneurin Bevan
Topic(s): Society
"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."
― Aneurin Bevan
Topic(s): Freedom
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
― Aneurin Bevan
Topic(s): Experience
"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
Topic(s): Sympathy
"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
― Aneurin Bevan
Topic(s): Peace

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