Aneurin Bevan Quotes About Suffering
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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.
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I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
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Aneurin Bevan
- Born: November 15, 1897
- Died: July 6, 1960
- Occupation: Secretary of State for Health
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