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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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More quotes by Tony Benn
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn
The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
Tony Benn
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
Tony Benn
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
Tony Benn
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
Tony Benn
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
Tony Benn
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Tony Benn
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
Tony Benn
There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
Tony Benn
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.
Tony Benn
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
Tony Benn
It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
Tony Benn