“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Aneurin Bevan Quotes
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan 
59% of people like this quote
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
58% of people like this quote
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.
Aneurin Bevan
58% of people like this quote
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
56% of people like this quote
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
Aneurin Bevan
56% of people like this quote