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Tony Benn

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Tony Benn

“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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Tony Benn

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”

Source/Notes: Speech in House of Commons (Feb. 28, 1991)

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Tony Benn

“Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.”

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Tony Benn

“Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.”

Source/Notes: Office without power: diaries 1968-72 (1988 edition), Arrow

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Tony Benn

“I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.”

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Tony Benn

“If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.”

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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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Tony Benn

“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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Tony Benn

“The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”

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“The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.”

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“We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.”

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“the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.”

Source/Notes: Encounter (January 1963)

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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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“Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.”

Source/Notes: Speech in Southampton (25 May 1971)

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