12 Quotes By Aneurin Bevan


Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan on business

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan on experience

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan on freedom

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan on future

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan on future

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan on peace

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan on politics

Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan on politics

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan on power

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan on society

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 on sympathy

This is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin Bevan on truth