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It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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.
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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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