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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.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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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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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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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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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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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