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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive ... — Tony Benn

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment. — Tony Benn

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose. — Tony Benn

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. — Tony Benn

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good — Tony Benn

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them. — Tony Benn

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly. — Tony Benn

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered. — Tony 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 am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. — Tony Benn

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard. — Tony Benn

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world ... .because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community. — Tony Benn

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy. — Tony Benn

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time. — Tony Benn

Clement Attlee, who looked like a sadistic sanitary inspector... — Tony Benn

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone. — Tony Benn

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths — Tony Benn

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee. — Tony Benn

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters. — Tony Benn

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. — Tony Benn

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945. — Tony Benn

Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture. — Tony Benn

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day. — Tony Benn

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split? — Tony Benn

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps. — Tony Benn

The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen — Tony Benn

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn

After fifteen years I have decided to resign my membership of the Dennis The Menace Fanclub. It
brought me no benefits worth mentioning. — Tony Benn

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea — Tony Benn

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so. — Tony Benn

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it — Tony Benn

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky. — Tony Benn

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end. — Tony Benn

I was stunned with outrage. — Tony Benn

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child — Tony Benn

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. — Tony Benn

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. — Tony Benn

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do. — Tony Benn

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his — Tony Benn

Making mistakes is how you learn. — Tony Benn

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

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

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

I am a public library — 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

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

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much. — Tony Benn

Howay yabastaaz I'll t-t-take the f-f-fuckin lorrayaz! Am fuckin al reet me man. Why aye! — 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

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale — 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

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime. — Tony Benn

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing — Tony Benn

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England. — Tony Benn

I pledge no fudge of compromise', said Arthur Scargill, 'and no carrots of redundancy'. That would make a nice epitaph for him. 'He pledged no fudge'. — Tony Benn

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. — Tony Benn

All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea. — Tony Benn

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner — Tony Benn

The Prime Minister keeps me on around here because I make him look good. — Tony Benn

My filing system is messy but orderly. — Tony 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