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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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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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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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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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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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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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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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 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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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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