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Aneurin Bevan
Welsh
Politician
About the author
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Politics
#Blood
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#People
#Road
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,
Welsh
Politician
#Time
#Fish
#Genius
This is my truth, tell me yours.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Truth
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Will
#Man
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Power
#Purpose
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Genius
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Forget
#Man
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Reading
#Duty
#Business
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Poor
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Right
#Party
#Leader
#Machine
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Society
#Future
#Order
#Fascism
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Freedom
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Man
#Future
#Walking
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Morals
#Interest
#Politics
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Heart
#Deep
#Party
#Hatred
#Seduction
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Fiction
#Newspapers
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,
Welsh
Politician
#Sympathy
#Altruism
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Will
#Experience
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#World
#Peace
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. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Heart
#Deep
#Party
#Hatred
#Seduction
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan,
Welsh
Politician
#Sound