Ernest Bevin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
-- Ernest Bevin

#People #Intelligence #Looks
The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.
-- Ernest Bevin

#Business #Firsts #Negotiation
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

#War #Men #Generosity
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

#Heart #Islands #Race
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
-- Ernest Bevin

#Able #Tickets #Policy
There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
-- Ernest Bevin

#People #House #World
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

#Asking #Movement #Body
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

#Peace #War #Men
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
-- Ernest Bevin

#Cutting #Feet #Stupidity
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting â€” and whether or not we leaders agree.
-- Ernest Bevin

#Fighting #Leader #Defeat
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
-- Ernest Bevin

#Historical #Three #Newspapers
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
-- Ernest Bevin

#Change #Men #Political

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