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Famous Aneurin Bevan Quotes
“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.”
“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.”
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
Source: In Place of Fear
“He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.”
“You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.”
“Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.”