Mr Benn Quotes: top 32 famous quotes about Mr Benn

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People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what. — Benn Northover

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper. — Hilary Benn

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. — Tony Benn

I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong. — Tony Benn

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris — Tony Benn

My filing system is messy but orderly. — Tony Benn

My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. — Gottfried Benn

force without judgement crashes by its own weight. — Nigel Benn

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once — Tony Benn

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said — Tony Benn

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. — Tony Benn

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. — Tony Benn

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias. — Tony Benn

What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you — Tony Benn

American colleges and universities are propaganda machines — Walter Benn Michaels

You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you? — Leila Sales

I don't know if I wanted to top myself or if I just wanted someone to hug me. — Nigel Benn

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares ... or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination. — Tony Benn

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches. — Tony Benn

At 5.45 a.m. the important scientists finished their coffee and played rock paper scissors to see who had to phone the government. — Mitch Benn

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — Tony Benn

I am a public library — Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. — Tony Benn

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten — Tony Benn

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn. — Tony Benn

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation — Tony Benn

On the National Executive sat Charles Clarke, looking like a rather manky chimpanzee with his unkempt beard, jug ears and his air of surly aggression. — Tony Benn

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain. — Tony Benn

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody. — Tony Benn