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Quotes by Aneurin Bevan

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
– Aneurin Bevan
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
– Aneurin Bevan
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
– 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
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
– Aneurin Bevan
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
– Aneurin Bevan
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
– Aneurin Bevan
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
– Aneurin Bevan
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
– Aneurin Bevan
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
– 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.
– Aneurin Bevan
This is my truth, tell me yours.
– Aneurin Bevan
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
– Aneurin Bevan
Politics is a blood sport.
– 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