Facts about Aneurin Bevan

Occup.	Politician
From	Welsh
Born	November 15, 1897
Died	July 6, 1960
Aged	62 years

Summary

Aneurin Bevan was a famous Politician from Welsh, who lived between November 15, 1897 and July 6, 1960. He/she became 62 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding. Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Aneurin, under the main topic Power.

Related authors: Julia Gillard (Statesman)

22 Famous quotes by Aneurin Bevan

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

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

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

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

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"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus"

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"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable"

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"Poor fellow, he suffers from files"

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

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

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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one"

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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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"This is my truth, tell me yours"

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"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee"

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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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"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"

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"No attempt 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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