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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.
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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
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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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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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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.
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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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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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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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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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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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