Author: Aneurin Bevan

Quotes

This is my truth, tell me yours.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Aneurin Bevan

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

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

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

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

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