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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.
Tony Benn
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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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.
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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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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Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: 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?
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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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