Occupation: Secretary Of State For Health Birth: November 15, 1897 Death: July 6, 1960
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism..
This is my truth, tell me yours..
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus..
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..
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle..
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 monke….
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away..
The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him..
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction..
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual..
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder..
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety..
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world..
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest..
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born..
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine..
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund ….
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver..
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future..
No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means..