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
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that… — 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
Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I did publish a Bill once called "Common Sense" with a new constitution for Europe called the "Commonwealth of Europe," setting it… — 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
When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other,… — 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
