Tony Benn Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tony Benn
Tony Benn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.
The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.
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.
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.
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.
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.
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?
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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
After fifteen years I have decided to resign my membership of the Dennis The Menace Fanclub. It
brought me no benefits worth mentioning.
brought me no benefits worth mentioning.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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
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
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares ... or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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.
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation
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.
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.
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.
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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.
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'.
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.