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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Obsolescence
Britain
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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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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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 believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
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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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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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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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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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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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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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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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I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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