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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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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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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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There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
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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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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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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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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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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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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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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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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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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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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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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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