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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
Tony Benn
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
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
Tony Benn
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
Tony Benn
An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
Tony Benn
My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
Tony Benn
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Tony Benn
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
Tony Benn
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
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
Tony Benn
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
Tony Benn
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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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
Tony Benn
I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
Tony Benn