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Aneurin Bevan

11 quotes

Aneurin Bevan belongs to that rare category of people whose words are more famous than their biography. With equal ease, Aneurin Bevan moved between Politics and Future, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 12 quotes from Aneurin Bevan, each offering a different angle on Politics, Future, Truth, Sympathy, and Society. A line that stays with you: "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."

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

— Aneurin Bevan

Experience

All Quotes by Aneurin Bevan

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

— 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

Future

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

— Aneurin Bevan

Peace

“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

“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

“Politics is a blood sport.”

— Aneurin Bevan

Politics

“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”

— Aneurin Bevan

Freedom

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

— Aneurin Bevan

Future