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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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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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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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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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The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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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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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 have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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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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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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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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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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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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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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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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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