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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

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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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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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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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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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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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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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Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
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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 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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