The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I try not to make political arguments personal. It doesn't help and it switches a lot of people off. The real questions:… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. — Tony Benn Copy Share
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part… — Tony Benn Copy Share
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn Copy Share
You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture. — Tony Benn Copy Share
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn Copy Share
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. — Tony Benn Copy Share
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… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination. — Tony Benn Copy Share
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her… — Tony Benn Copy Share
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at… — Tony Benn Copy Share
