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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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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of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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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?
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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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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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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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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
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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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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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