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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
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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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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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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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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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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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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