Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

experience
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

politics
Politics is a blood sport.

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

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

-Aneurin Bevan

society
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

sympathy
This is my truth, tell me yours.

-Aneurin Bevan

truth

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