Quote

The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.

Tony Benn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
Media
Hope
Whites
Change
Underneath
Controlled
Administration
Police
Army
Changes

More quotes by Tony Benn

Image
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
Tony Benn
Image
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
Tony Benn
Image
If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
Tony Benn
Image
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
Tony Benn
Image
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
Tony Benn
Image
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?
Tony Benn
Image
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
Tony Benn
Image
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
Tony Benn
Image
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.
Tony Benn
Image
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
Tony Benn
Image
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
Tony Benn
Image
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn
Image
I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
Tony Benn
Image
I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
Tony Benn
Image
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?
Tony Benn
Image
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
Tony Benn
Image
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
Tony Benn
Image
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.
Tony Benn
Image
I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
Tony Benn
Image
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
Tony Benn