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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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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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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 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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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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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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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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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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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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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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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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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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I am a public library
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