Aneurin Bevan – 11 Quotes

11 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