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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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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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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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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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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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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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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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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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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 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 believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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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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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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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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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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