Aneurin Bevan Quotes

Welsh - Politician | November 15, 1897 - July 6, 1960

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

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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

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Politics is a blood sport.

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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

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

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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

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

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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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