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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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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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 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 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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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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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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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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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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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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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