Famous Quotes / Aneurin Bevan
22 Quotations by Aneurin Bevan
- 1. Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
- 2. Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
- 3. He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to str ...
- 4. He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
- 5. I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about ...
- 6. I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
- 7. I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
- 8. I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a ...
- 9. It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rul ...
- 10. Politics is a blood sport.
- 11. Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
- 12. Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
- 13. Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
- 14. Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
- 15. The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
- 16. The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
- 17. The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do ...
- 18. The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for ...
- 19. This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a ...
- 20. Virtue is its own punishment.