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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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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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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.
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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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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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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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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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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 think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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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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