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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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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
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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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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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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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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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
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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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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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