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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

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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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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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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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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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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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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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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
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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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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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