Aneurin Bevan

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#axiom #enforced #experience #industrially #politically

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#fascism #future #itself #new #new order

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. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#could #fish #genius #island #made

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#like #make #seems #sound #tin

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #interest #morals #never #politics

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #kind #know #labour #labour party

Politics is a blood sport. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#politics

Poor fellow, he suffers from files. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#files #poor #suffers

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#face #future #his #man #reactionary

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#consequently #disagreeable #duty #made #reading