Aneurin Bevan
Quotes by Aneurin Bevan
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
— Aneurin Bevan
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
— Aneurin Bevan
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
— Aneurin Bevan
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
— Aneurin Bevan
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
— Aneurin Bevan
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
— Aneurin Bevan
Politics is a blood sport.
— Aneurin Bevan
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
— Aneurin Bevan
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
— Aneurin Bevan
This is my truth, tell me yours.
— Aneurin Bevan