Aneurin Bevan Quotes
- No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party.…
- The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
- 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…
- I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
- The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
- This is my truth, tell me yours.
- 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…
- It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
- Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
- I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
- It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
- Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
- Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
- He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
- I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
- Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
- Politics is a blood sport.
- Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
- Virtue is its own punishment.
- How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the…