Author: Aneurin Bevan

Quotes

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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

- Aneurin Bevan

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

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

- 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.

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

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

- Aneurin Bevan

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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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