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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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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 we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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 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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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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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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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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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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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
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