Aneurin Bevan Quotes

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.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

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

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

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.

Politics is a blood sport.

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

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

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