Aneurin Bevan - Society Quotes

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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Aneurin Bevan

Yesterday, Barbara [Castle] quoted from a speech which I made some years ago, and she said that I believed that Socialism in the context of modern society meant the conquest of the commanding heights of the economy …

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This so-called affluent society is an ugly society still. It is a vulgar society. It is a meretricious society. It is a society in which priorities have gone all wrong.

Aneurin Bevan

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Aneurin Bevan

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

Aneurin Bevan