Aneurin Bevan Quotes about Politics

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Aneurin Bevan

Men, Political, Politics

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

Aneurin Bevan

Political, Fiction, Politics

The Times 29 Mar. 1960

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

Aneurin Bevan

Order, Political, Politics

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

Aneurin Bevan

Political, Age, Politics

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

Freedom, Political, Politics

David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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

Aneurin Bevan

Politics, Arena, Morality

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Aneurin Bevan

Emotional, Political, Politics

1957 Labour Party conference speech against unilateral disarmament, Oct.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

Aneurin Bevan

Giving, Political, Politics