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A free health service is pure Socialism and as such it is opposed to the hedonism of capitalist society.
In Place of Fear (1952)
Soon, if we are not more prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
In Place of Fear (1952)
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.
In Place of Fear (1952)
Man must first live before he can live abundantly.
In Place of Fear (1952)
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
In Place of Fear (1952)
A free people will always refuse to put up with preventable poverty.
In Place of Fear (1952)
The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
In Place of Fear (1952)
We should try to avoid new causes of tension, such as the rearming of Western Germany.
In Place of Fear (1952)
Without free expression of opinion and the means to ensure it a democracy dies.
In Place of Fear (1952)
There is no evidence to show that the Soviet Union wants a trial of strength.
In Place of Fear (1952)
A free Health Service is a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative applied to a segment of society where commercial principles are seen at their worst.
In Place of Fear (1952)
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
In Place of Fear (1952)
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
In Place of Fear (1952)
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
In Place of Fear (1952)
The British constitution, with its adult suffrage, exposes all rights and privileges, properties and powers, to the popular will. The only checks are those that arise from a sense of justice and social propriety.
In Place of Fear (1952)
The issue therefore in a capitalist democracy resolves itself into this: either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property, or property, in fear of poverty, will destroy democracy.
In Place of Fear (1952)
That so many people suffer from preventable privation, whilst others enjoy privileges and material advantages that do not on any reasonable reckoning flow from personal accomplishments, is evidence of dangerous social instability.
In Place of Fear (1952)
The function of parliamentary democracy, under universal franchise, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attack of the people. It is a sword pointed at the heart of property-power. The arena where the issues are joined is Parliament.
In Place of Fear (1952)
No serious student who studies the history of the last half century can deny the ferment of ideas associated with the names of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Their effectiveness in arming the minds of working-class leaders all over the world with intellectual weapons showed that their teaching had an organic relationship with the political and social realities of their time.
In Place of Fear (1952)
The conversion of an industry to public ownership is only the first step towards Socialism. It is an all-important step, for without it the conditions of further progress are not established. One important consequence is a shift of power that resolves the conflict between public and private claims. The danger of the State machine being manipulated by private vested interests is thus reduced.
In Place of Fear (1952)