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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
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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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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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I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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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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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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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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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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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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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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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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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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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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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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