Famous Quotes

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

Aneurin Bevan on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Aneurin Bevan

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

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

• "Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."

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

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