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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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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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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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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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 believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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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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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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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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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 have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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