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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn
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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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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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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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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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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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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