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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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 Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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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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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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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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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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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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I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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