Aneurin Bevan Quotes About Politics
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
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Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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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.
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
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Politics is a blood sport.
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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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Aneurin Bevan
- Born: November 15, 1897
- Died: July 6, 1960
- Occupation: Secretary of State for Health
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