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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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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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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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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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I am a public library
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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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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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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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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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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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