Aneurin Bevan

This is my truth, tell me yours.

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.

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

Politics is a blood sport.

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

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

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

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

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

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

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